At an L.A. barbershop where Obama's win was celebrated, bitterness over voter suppression tactics
. Closer to home, a video surfaced just a few days ago of someone at a Laguna Hills basketball game calling a Black Portola High player “a monkey” and asking “who let him out of his chains?”
On many fronts, there’s been progress in the half century since then, and Tolliver noted that white people have always been part of the civil rights movement. But resistance to the continued diversification of the U.S. has further exposed strains of venomous hatred masked as virtue and patriotism. Rod Wright pushed back a bit, saying a lot of people wish Biden would have tried harder on voting rights protections and climate change initiatives. He said even Obama didn’t get as much done as many people in the Black community hoped he would have.
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