n>The experience of watching, on video, George Floyd desperately plead for his life — and yet still suffer the cruelest of deaths in the middle of the street in the middle of the day in the middle of America — has collectively galvanized millions of us. We’ve realized that we are obligated to struggle against the tectonic depth and scale of racial oppression and violence; tectonic shifts are, after all, what set off earthquakes and volcanoes, not unlike the protests erupting along the fault lines of American inequality. This week dispelled the comforting narrative that some epochal division (the Civil War? the Civil Rights Movement?) separates the ‘bad old days’ from a redeemed present. Read Full Article »