Last modified on Mon 19 Jul 2021 15.43 EDT
In his inaugural address in January, Joe Biden promised to use his presidency to ârestore the soul of Americaâ. He would unite the nation, defuse âanger, resentment and hatredâ, and lead Americans back to a world where they treated âeach other with dignity and respectâ.
Six months later, Biden is still preaching the unity gospel, and regularly assures his fellow Americans that âthereâs not a single thing we arenât able to do when we do it togetherâ.
Drive 1,400 miles west from the White House, to Dallas in Texas where Brianna Brown lives, and thereâs little evidence of politicians working together that she can see. As an African American fourth-generation Texan, Brown has been assailed since Biden came into office by a whirlwind of regressive laws emanating from the Republican-controlled state legislature.