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America Begins to See More Clearly Now What Its Black Citizens Always Knew

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Thousands of protesters march from downtown to the site of the arrest of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn., June 5, 2020. (Eric Miller/Reuters)
The present round of protest is different. The participants are people of every race, ethnicity, sex, age, and religion.

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F our years ago, in the last week of my 20-year military career, a fellow officer pointed at the flat-screen television mounted on the wall of a classified Pentagon conference room and asked, “What do you think about that?”

I glanced up to see a cable news segment about Colin Kaepernick, a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers at the time, kneeling during the national anthem, the closed-captioning sputtering out blocks of text with his rationale. The summer of 2016 had been filled with more than a hundred Black Lives Matter protests in several dozen cities following the police killings of Alton …

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