I can’t argue with that. But I think we’ll find out that a guilty verdict can be equally ineffective—if improving the situation was its aim.
That wasn't the aim and things are not going to improve.
Here's the thing. People are tragically and unjustly murdered every single day. The establishment decides which of these murders you are supposed to get outraged about. George Floyd wasn't the only person who died under controversial circumstances that week. He was just the only one you heard about. And you heard about it because the establishment wanted you to hear about it. You might say "It went viral online so the establishment HAD to report on it." But actually, no. The establishment can and does suppress viral news stories if it wants to. If you are pissed off about something you saw on the news, it's because the establishment wants you to be pissed off about it.
Now, you can argue over whether the media is driven primarily by profit or ideology. Do they promote white on black killings because it's good for clicks and ratings or do they do it to promote a narrative and advance a political agenda? It is probably a mix of both. Hot-button race issues are surefire clickbait. And yet...
It is funny that beginning with Trayvonn Martin in 2012 up until the election of Donald Trump, it was all BLM all of the time. Trayvonn in 2012, Mike Brown in 2014, Freddie Grey in 2015, then you had that BLM shooting in Dallas in 2016.
Then Donald Trump gets elected and you did not hear about BLM at all for three years. 2017: nothing. 2018: nothing. 2019: nothing. Then in 2020: Boom, George Floyd and its like we are right back where we left off in 2016. Our overlords can turn on and off the outrage like a light switch.
Me thinks our overlords came to the conclusion that BLM was causing whites to become too tribal and so they pulled the plug on it. It's interesting that Islamic terrorism also mysteriously stopped after Trump was elected. But then 2020 came around and they had to revive BLM because it was an election year and they needed to angry up the black vote.
Now that Trump is gone, whites have no one to rally behind. So from here on out, it's going to be one George Floyd after another. A slow process of demoralization as we dance into the abyss.