2020’s been a year of extreme acceleration in our civic lives and civic understandings, even as our national government has largely stalled.

2020’s been a year of extreme acceleration in our civic lives and civic understandings, even as our national government has largely stalled. You make the difference!
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** 12 Trends of 2020: A Year of Pain, Pivots, and Possibility ([link removed][UNIQID])
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1. A Year of Action for Racial Justice

As we note below, the nation faces a legitimation crisis. A legitimation crisis occurs when the professed values of a system are diametrically opposed to the actual operating values of the system. Indeed, America’s relationship with race is the leading cause of the legitimation crisis the nation faces. Americans, especially white Americans, like to tell themselves that the nation was founded on democratic and republican values, and that is partly true, but only with the negating caveat that slavery and genocide were taken as a given. In other words, we live in a state founded in violence and domination, and as a nation we have never seriously addressed a reconciliation process—a fact illustrated by the refusal to dismantle this country’s many monuments to defenders of white supremacy right up until this past year...


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