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- W4384949866 abstract "Extract An introduction for the second edition of a book like The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea is a less straightforward thing than it might first seem. Typically, when an author revisits a book some years later, their ruminations center on how they may have become clearer on the ideas in their book, taken into consideration critical corrections, or, maybe, generally how their own thinking has matured thanks to the miracle of living a life. But as I sit here, toward the end of 2021, experiencing a late fall in which the leaves seem to refuse to quit the trees, I am reflecting in the midst of an entirely different set of considerations. As the first edition of this book was going to press, an unapologetic racist, misogynist, homophobe, and xenophobe had slid through the safeguards of democracy meant to keep people of low morals out of the most powerful position in the world. Some thought, sure, Donald Trump won the Electoral College vote (even as he lost the popular vote), but the structure of major institutions would train? coerce? persuade? such a man to become a proper president, a responsible custodian of all Americans’ welfare. But you cannot train a person who denies the power of knowledge, cannot coerce a bully, cannot persuade someone motivated by irrational animus toward anyone who disagrees with them. And then, as if the real erosion of what passes for democracy in America in the face of clumsy, intellectually bereft demagoguery were not a historical emergency all on its own, the globe was beset by a life-threatening pandemic three years later. COVID-19 took nearly one million American lives as the same president suggested we inject ourselves with bleach, while declaring that science had no more idea of what was happening than the average person on the street; indeed the bare idea of wearing a slim piece of cloth over one’s mouth to protect others from a deadly disease was enough to enrage him and his quite substantial and immovable base." @default.
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- W4384949866 title "Introduction to the Updated Edition" @default.
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