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>Systemic racism is way bigger than just police killings.

A single protest movement isn't going to end systemic racism, no matter how large it becomes. Even revolutions don't end conservatism -- just ask Leon Trotsky.

However, the coronavirus epidemic is here today and it may well be gone in a year. This may be the worst possible time for a protest movement since the Spanish Flu.




Yes but you can't plan these things. So here we are...


Except you absolutely can. The black civil rights protests were planned months in advance, and almost always when schools where out.




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