A viral photo of young people drinking on a restaurant patio during a protest reveals two Americas with different visions of what 'going back to normal' would look like
Activists pointed out that the cutesy message was actually an admission that the brave brunch-skippers hadn’t seen much of a problem with America’s brutal inequalities before the 2016 election, and likely wouldn’t show up to a protest organized by, say, Black Lives Matter.
They’d go back to brunch. This photo seems to provide the proof: carefree white people in the foreground enjoying the sunshine as the street convulses with protests against one of America’s most fundamental sins: state violence toward black people. Because of the pandemic, these two groups are twinned: The pleasure seekers and the justice seekers both must take to the streets. The beer drinkers risk exposing each other to the virus for a pleasant afternoon, while the protesters take the risk to fight. The protesters wear masks; the beer drinkers do not. Maskless and entirely white, the drinkers recall the maskless, white, armed protesters who demonstrated against lockdown measures just weeks earlier. Those protesters were met with toleration and civility; the protesters streaking past in the photo will be met with tear gas, police violence, and arrest.
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