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“I do believe that the power of the 1960s was compelling America to confront racism and the contradictions of racism with its image of itself to create a culture in which espousing racist beliefs was no longer socially acceptable. I think those things were very important. They were helpful certainly for our lives (black people) to be able to move through the world. I think that was a huge success. I think that what we are seeing now is the response to how successfully we had penetrated every aspect of American life with at least the tacit understanding that the expectation was that you would be on the side of equality and justice or at least pretend. And this is where Trump becomes an accelerant because what Trump did was, he tapped into something that I think many of us didn't realize many white people were experiencing which was they just wanted to be free of all of this. They wanted to be free of the requirements of decency. Free of the requirements of embracing a belief in
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