This article from the Atlantic by Mychal Denzel Smith!!!

Police Reform Is Not Enough: The moral failure of incremental change

"Incremental change keeps the grinding forces of oppression - of death - in place. Actively advocating for this position is a moral failure."

This seems to be a definitive answer to the question posed by my Senior English teacher, Ms. Firstenberg, who had us read Rousseau and Hobbes (both thinking about the social contract and whether people are inherently good or inherently flawed) and then write about which one was right - the one advocating for revolution (Rousseau) or the one advocating for incremental change (Hobbes).

Other quotable from this article:

"Progress is wrestling concessions from the behemoth of systematized oppression."