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Of American Fragility: Public Rituals, Human Rights, And The End Of Invisible Man, Etienne C. Toussaint
Of American Fragility: Public Rituals, Human Rights, And The End Of Invisible Man, Etienne C. Toussaint
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of American democracy in at least two important ways. First, the coronavirus has ravaged Black communities across the United States, unmasking decades of inequitable laws and public policies that have rendered Black lives socially and economically isolated from adequate health care services, educational resources, housing stability, environmental security, stable and living wage jobs, generational wealth, and other institutional structures necessary for resilience. Second, government-mandated social distancing in response to the coronavirus has failed to dampen America’s racially biased, violent, and supervisory policing culture, reigniting demands from the Movement for Black Lives for police …