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Beyond the clickbait headline, Jim Clyburn also said: “There’s nobody around who does not know that our judicial system, our law enforcement system, our police practices have all been built on two pillars that hold up two sets of experiences,” washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/powerup/2020/06/11/powerup-rep-clyburn-to-today-s-activists-don-t-let-defund-the-police-hijack-new-momentum-for-reform/
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There's “the white experience of people who came to this country on own free will, who came looking for freedom and justice, running away from tyranny.…
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And the other pillar, holding up black experiences of people who came to this country against their will — chain and shackles and enslaved. The whole law enforcement and policing system has been established to preserve that phenomenon.
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We all know that. And we’re getting a few white people just now beginning to admit that.”