Anyone who cares enough to pipe up with some commentary clearly cares. Many people, however, remain silent. They don’t care if someone they don’t know (of a different race, or the same race) is getting dragged out of their car to be murdered by the police or anyone else.

The enemy of some kind of cohesive movement to end police brutality, and to go even further and dismantle the police state, the surveillance state and the prison state is apathy, not passion. We already have apathy coming out of our ears. Or worse: we have performative empathy and some kind of hashtag or social media trend. That superficial BS doesn’t move mountains.

Most people murdered by cops in America are white. White people generally do. not. care. at all about those murder victims. I can (unfortunately) name a half dozen black people murdered by the police, but maybe 2 white people. This epidemic crosses racial lines, and the only people telling us otherwise are sowing the kind of discord that guarantees we will not see meaningful change.

Telling people to stay apathetic and to mind their business is exactly what the overwhelming majority of people have been doing for decades. Apathy let this happen. We don’t need more of it.