Needless to say, Trump and the Republican Party, aided by Fox and other right wing media outlets, are attempting to demagogically exploit the racist murder of George Floyd and the protest actions and mayhem surrounding it to regain some of their lost political momentum heading into this fall’s election.

“There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem.” Speech of President Lyndon Johnson at the time of the passage of landmark civil rights legislation

Johnson, I believe, was, in effect, telling white people that they are the problem and have to step to the plate in the struggle to eradicate racism. Still the case.

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