![]() and countless others risked everything to persuade the country to live up to its stated ideals and to rid itself of the insidious view that white people mattered more than others. ![]() We now face a moral reckoning: Americans have to decide whether this country will truly be a multiracial democracy or whether to merely tinker around the edges of our problems once again and remain decidedly racist and unequal. An odd admixture, but an understandable consequence of our troubled times. The videos of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks dying have combined with the vulnerability caused by COVID-19 and the feeling that the country is broken to bring us all to the brink of madness and, apparently, to the precipice of significant change. Perhaps that is the source of the intensity of our current moment. Cell-phone videos have brought us a torrent of cruel images of Black death. Recent years have been particularly tough. ![]() In each generation we have to experience the haunting ritual of a Black family grieving in public over the loss of a loved one at the hands of the police. Police violence against Black people in this country is as American as bald cypress trees and Southern magnolias. ![]()
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