RSN: FOCUS: Cornel West, William Barber II, Liz Theoharis, Timothy B. Tyson | What the Courage to Change History Looks Like

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FOCUS: Cornel West, William Barber II, Liz Theoharis, Timothy B. Tyson | What the Courage to Change History Looks Like

Cornel West, William Barber II, Liz Theoharis and Timothy B. Tyson, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Since the casual killing of George Floyd on camera, unprecedented protests - not policy papers - have radically shifted public opinion in support of the battle against systemic racism."

Yes, years of police killings of unarmed African-Americans had stacked up like dry tinder. True, George Floyd’s public murder furnished the spark. But freedom’s forge must finish its work while the coals are hot. This is the hour to reimagine what America could become if “We the People” meant all of us. America needs what this movement intends to do: change history, after which police training manuals will follow.

We have witnessed a multicolored and intergenerational uprising whose power grows more poised and peaceful by the day, winning support that reveals a newly mobilized majority in our midst. Let no one mistake peace for quiet, however, nor mistake the rage over police violence as ignoring the roots of policy violence and poverty violence. The ruthless indifference of our governments to the poor was clear well before Covid-19 laid it bare.

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