America has been destroying itself over a fake problem, scapegoating those who are helping to keep that problem in check, because we don't have the guts to face the real problem. I don't know how that problem can be solved, either, but I'd be interested in feedback.
Of all America's many problems, the greatest of all may be that lots of kids are being raised without Dad. This problem is especially acute in inner cities, on reservations, and perhaps in Appalachia, but it is everywhere now. Mona Charen describes this problem from the perspective of family in Sex Matters, while Heather MacDonald shows the results in War on the Cops, both critically-important books to understand the truth underneath our present ridiculous hysteria and scapegoating. You can also learn the same thing by, say, checking The Guardian's interactive website for Americans killed by police and then doing some research on the lives of those Americans, and the circumstances under which they died.
No, the core problem isn't racism, anymore. No, it isn't police brutality. It is lives broken,undisciplined, drug-addicted, violent, brutal, and consequently miserable and short. It is women having babies without getting married, and then the man taking off, or being pushed away. All the rest is mostly lies. When the police back off (due to "reform," what a lovely-sounding word!), the kids start shooting one another, and women (including old ladies who just want clean and safe apartment buidings) are put in their place by gang-bangers. Often they are beaten, sometimes murdered.
But the cops can't put families back together. In theory, that's the job of the Church. That was David Wilkerson's job, I suppose. Is there any hope for America from people called by God to mend broken lives and families, and teach young men and women self-discipline and marriage? That is the question everyone should be asking. That is the question I am asking, anyway.