America’s Moment of Reckoning on the Path to Justice
If justice is aspirational, that leaves it for accountability to act as a deterrent to reckless or harmful conduct. It is clear that “justice” isn’t what America has.
If justice is aspirational, that leaves it for accountability to act as a deterrent to reckless or harmful conduct. It is clear that “justice” isn’t what America has.
The committed leftist Bret Weinstein leads the reactionary right in defending Western civilization against the Black Lives Matter movement out to cancel science.
Half of the US believes in the forceful imposition of law and order but, at the same time, celebrates destruction and disruption.
Cultures need symbols, but US culture tends to deprive its symbols of life by exploiting them too literally.
This time in America seems like so much of its past, where outrage and protest yield small crumbs of real change.
The violence of the system now being contested finds its source in the rational application of rules, and the media hides that fact from view.
Black men are falling at the hands of police weapons and black patients are falling to COVID-19.
The proverb “out of sight, out of mind” refers to problems that can be cast aside. Yet today, three problems converge: racism, economic injustice and the panic of a pandemic.
What can any presidential candidate say or do in the nation that is becoming increasingly ungovernable?
