From The Post's Editorial Board: This movement is not anarchy. It could push America to be a better nation.
it kills whites, and that the economic burden — the job losses, the shuttering of small businesses — is weighing more heavily on blacks as well, though undoubtedly there is plenty of suffering to go around.
Many Americans, in other words, are seeing, and understanding, that racism was not solved by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. It was not solved by the Civil Rights Act in 1964. The election of a black president in 2008 did not solve it, either.Such an understanding could take us in many directions, most of which cannot fit on a protester’s placard. It could lead to a structure to hold an honest national conversation on truth and reconciliation and to consider remedies and reparations.
And it could take us to the ballot box in November. The nation is in the pitiable position, as these protests unfold, of having a president not only indifferent to their cause but actively opposed to their righteous goals.
It is contemptible, and we hope and believe it will fail: 2020 is not 1968. We are seeing largely nonviolent protests, not the widespread riots of 1968. People of color are being joined by whites. This is not anarchy; it is America doing what it does best, which is seeking to improve itself. Governors, mayors, police chiefs, community and faith leaders, and, above all, the protesters themselves are stepping into the void of national leadership with compassion and commitment.
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