Race War 2020 and I don’t just mean the upcoming presidential election.
Protests have swept the nation, coinciding with widespread unemployment due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a deep recession and an ambiguous administration in the White House. America has been here before, minus mandatory quarantine. Our parents and grandparents are experiencing a deja vu to the south of the 1960s: waves of violent, political protests with military and law enforcement responses, specifically over ongoing issues with racial oppression.1968 was a culmination of several years of aggressive, political upheaval in the United States. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and The Voting Rights Act of 1965 did very little to address the ongoing concerns of Black Americans outside of the south.
