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One Step Forward, Six Steps Back: Is There Any Hope of Curing America’s Race Problem?

The little black boy wearing a white T-shirt and black face mask stood out from the adults in the photo accompanying a front-page story in The New York Times about the George Floyd protests spreading across America. The sign he held stopped me in mid-thought, like the National Guardsman who handcuffed CNN reporter Omar Jimenez the other day…