A few solutions...

  Brian Strope What's the problem? Really? Oh dear... Okay, fair question.  Black people get killed by police too often. It's not slowing down. What's the solution? Change the model of how we police. Split up the role of the police officer into 3-4 separate roles held by 3-4 seperate people. But first we have to understand how we got here. Why is this happening? This is the part that people have to hear with friendly ears. It's because we're all racist. Yep, me too. And even more surprisingly to some, black people are, too. Doesn't make any of it okay. What? That's nonsense. I'm not a racist! I hear you thinking. Slavery and the abuse of black people are deeply institutionalized. Even after the first 250 years of full-blown slavery, the last 160 haven't been an uncomplicated walk in the park.  Turns out, slavery is very wrong. How do you support something very wrong for so very long? You institutionalize it. Mixing metaphors, you bake it into the fab...

Brian Strope Why is it there? Sadly there's a lot of misperceptions: it helps balance states' rights, it makes it so that the big states like California and New York don't dominate the little states like Wyoming. (Nope!) What is it really?  Practically, it means that every state (mostly) gets one big vote that's (mostly) proportional to the number of people living there, and that vote goes to one candidate, usually the candidate with the most votes in that state. So California's one big vote is worth 55 points, and Wyoming's one big vote is worth 3. California's is bigger because we have more people. Why would we do that?  The most obvious reason is that it's 1784, and we don't want to bother adding up individual votes across state lines. More darkly, though, the main reason is that it's a clever way for white land and slave owners to get 3/5ths representation for the black slaves they own. "I get to vote for myself, my family, and something...