Janelle Monáe says the police system is “built on traumatising Black folks”
nme.comJanelle Monáe has spoken about the police system and its connections to racism, saying it was “built on traumatising Black folks”.The musician and actor appears in the movie Antebellum, which tackles slavery and Confederate-era America.Speaking about the recent resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, Monáe told the Guardian she was “happy” that the conversation was being had, even though “a lot of people [are] late to the party”.“You can’t talk about white supremacy, systemic racism, police brutality, without talking about chattel slavery, which is America’s original sin,” she said. “My ancestors were forced to come to America and work for free, and the first institution of policing was the slave patrol, which was meant to hunt down.
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