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The Danger of Getting Too Comfy With Biden
Racial complacency is never a good thing
If there’s going to be any societal shift after the brutal murder of George Floyd and the conviction of Derek Chauvin, it certainly should be that large segments of America will finally acknowledge the seriousness and gravity of racism.
Former President Barack Obama said it best following Floyd’s death:
In some ways, as tragic as these past few weeks have been, as difficult and scary and uncertain as they’ve been, they’ve also been an incredible opportunity for people to be awakened to some of these underlying trends.
The past year’s mass protests were some of the largest in American history and certainly the broadest protests ever on systemic racism. Astoundingly, many White Americans acknowledged and supported Black Lives Matter. According to the Pew Research Center, some 25% more Whites recognized the severity of race issues than before. There’s also much more agreement, from Whites, that racism is widespread and that the United States didn’t make as much progress as many people here once naively thought. More than 50% of Americans now support the Black Lives Matter movement.
This overdue recognition of the need to fight racism and undo systems that perpetuate it is a welcome rejection of a 2013…
