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Surprising Sources of Optimism

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, in her essay "How Do We Change America?," says:

The protests are building on the incredible groundwork of a previous iteration of the Black Lives Matter movement. Today, young white people are compelled to protest not only because of their anxieties about the instability of this country and their compromised futures in it but also because of a revulsion against white supremacy and the rot of racism. Their outlooks have been shaped during the past several years by the anti-racist politics of the B.L.M. movement, which move beyond seeing racism as interpersonal or attitudinal, to understanding that it is deeply rooted in the country’s institutions and organizations.

The protests I've attended in Brooklyn have remained laser-focused on the police killings of Blacks in America, particularly of George Floyd, but also Breonna Taylor and Eric Garner, as well as Ahmaud Arbery, who was hunted down and killed while jogging in Georgia by white gunmen.

I grew up, though, in a quasi-rural, quasi-suburban county north of Philadelphia. When I took the school bus in the morning, I would join children whose parents worked in factories that manufactured automobile parts. But there were also kids who lived on working farms. The region had yet to be overrun with the low-quality, over-priced housing developments that have blanketed the previously tranquil landscape.

I don't recall demonstrations ever occurring, whether during economic recessions or following the dozens of military strikes or invasions the United States has carried out in the last 40 years. I recall some picket lines, but there most definitely weren’t protests defending Black lives and against police violence. It was a place that was more than happy to accommodate racism and subordinate itself to authority, no matter how unjust.

Yet in the past week, at least three demonstrations, in Landsdale, Souderton, and Perkasie, took place in the wake of George Floyd’s killing. And more protests are planned. The shift appears to be a phenomenon across America, where protests are occurring in unanticipated places. The area is less white than it once was, but that doesn't explain the sheer number of people and the diversity.

What’s different? I suspect the combination, like Taylor suggests, of deeply felt anxieties across a wide segment of the population—particularly among the young people that made up the overwhelming ranks of the demonstrators—and outrage at the racial violence bound up in America’s institutions.

The combination could prove to be a very potent mix that brings about transformative change and, unlike past iterations, resists co-optation by centrist Democrats and the nonprofit industrial complex.

I adhere to a pessimism of the intellect.* But if outraged people in Bucks and Montgomery County, Pennsylvania are taking to the streets, I'll allow myself a dose of optimism.

(It's late, and the cliché-alert tool is broken on my computer. So please, dear, observant reader, allow me this transgression.)

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Because of police unions, there is an outside chance this creep might get his job back.

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