“America was founded on slavery, but it’s never truly sought to address this horrific past. We must put a mirror up to the face of America, and not put it down.”
. All the while, the world has watched in alarm, as if a painting had suddenly been disfigured.
“You’d have to live under a rock to not sympathize,” said Andrew Kayes, a 46-year-old radiologist on the Hawaiian island of Maui. The horrifying sight of Floyd’s slow asphyxiation, for which Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin faces second-degree murder charges and three other officers are accused of standing by or taking part, hurt Haynes to his core, he said.For days, he marched along with thousands of others in punishing 90-degree heat, seeking respect and remembrance for a man he never met.
“Just because racism isn’t overt doesn’t mean it’s not there,” he said. “Sometimes you have to check co-workers, like, ‘Hey, man, you can’t say that, or do that.’”But he believes understanding can grow with experience. “A lot of people have changed who you’d never have thought would open their minds,” Ingram said.Still, some divides are hard to bridge.
At the Lincoln Memorial this week, law student Yinka Onayemi, 25, sat on the steps in the blazing sun, clutching a sign saying “When does the/our American Dream Begin?”A few yards away, members of the District of Columbia’s Air National Guard patrolled the neoclassical monument, the site of stirring episodes in the struggle for racial equality — including King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech, during the March on Washington, and black contralto Marian Anderson’s 1939 performance after she was...
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