In 2016 before a New York real estate tycoon became president, I wrote
: "The
post-Ferguson violence in black communities is a reaction to a long and
historic list of grievances beginning with the misapplication of police
power. Trump's African American agenda...is a nightmarish fusion of
tactics that fail to get to the root causes of the deaths of unarmed
civilians at the hands of police officers or the killings of police
officers by individuals bent on avenging those deaths."

Nearly four years and a global pandemic later, the violence many people
feared has pushed the social contagion of racism right up against a
biological one. African Americans and their allies took the streets
demanding end to the lip service about racial justice that our country
enjoys promoting but can never quite deliver in the neighborhoods,
schools, boardrooms, and workplaces where ordinary Americans live their
everyday lives.  

Taking in the scenes around the White House, Lafayette Square, and Black
Lives Matter Plaza over the past few weeks has been one of the high
points in my career as a journalist as I continue to report on and
analyze the civil rights issues of our times in a portfolio that
includes the myriad issues facing our cities and states.

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