US election 2020: Why racism is still a problem for the world's most powerful country

I’m hopeful we can still say that, but it took the brutal death of George Floyd to jolt Americans from a position of seeming complacency, where a president could feel confident enough to say that

“there are very fine people on both sides” after anti-racism protesters clashed with a group of white supremacists in Charlottesville in 2017.

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US election 2020: Why racism is still a problem for the world’s most powerful country

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