Dear Reader,
Our letters over the last two months have been focused on the coronavirus. Now we are dealing with a centuries-old plague that has never been successfully defeated in our country – structural racism. The video of George Floyd’s death under the hands and knees of three Minneapolis policemen has traumatized a nation not because it is new, but because it is so vividly horrific, pornographic, and obscene that anyone who sees it clearly experiences the cold-eyed, heartless violence that has been visited on black bodies and souls for 500 years.
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