The photo below should win a Pulitzer prize.
It is of a young black woman in the subway surrounded by cowardly white nationalists sporting masks. It makes one think about the US south in the 1950's when black students were spit on for daring to sit at lunch counters reserved for whites.
The current climate has encouraged all this ugliness such that on the nation's 250th birthday there are racists marching in Washington. The only solace being that at least they know they don't have the majority's backing; hence the masks.
No doubt, however, that they have plenty of backers at home cheering them on.
The racism problem in America never went away but was sufficiently swept under the rug until the timing for surfacing was once again right.
It just took someone to give them permission.
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