'Nothing here is novel. For decades, and centuries, black Americans have been attempting to make the country's deep-seated inequality legible through the language of resistance,' writes BrandonTensley
Washington The books are flying off the virtual shelves:"White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism," Robin DiAngelo;"So You Want to Talk About Race," Ijeoma Oluo;"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness," Michelle Alexander.
Social media streams, meanwhile, are filled with white Americans learning about the power of supporting black-owned businesses, and sharing reading lists and podcasts that address racism -- and their responsibility to be not just not overtly racist, but anti-racist.News coverage of the systemic racism afflicting America is being devoured.But nothing here is novel.
"There is something different here," former President Barack Obama said during a virtual town hall on Wednesday."You look at those protests and that was a far more representative cross section of America out on the streets, peacefully protesting, who felt moved to do something because of the injustices that they have seen. That didn't exist back in the 1960s, that kind of broad collation.
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