Mr. Donald J. Trump has done everything wrong. Just as a couple of examples: He has not moved the US in the right direction--or has moved it even in the wrong direction--on global warming/climate change. He has weakened protections of the populace against air and water pollution, to favor big business, the polluters. And, maybe worst, through his poor handling of COVID-19 virus, he has allowed nearly 200,000 people to die (yes, he deserves major responsibility for that).
And yet tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people love him.
Hard for me to understand.
And yet: One man interviewed for TV said that he wants to see America go back to the America of his youth.
I can sort of understand that. In my younger days, we did not even have the words carjacking, school shooting, lockdown, smash-and-grab.
On the other hand, in those days maybe the Black man was expected to "know his place," and of course stay in it!
Of course we cannot go back, and we should not want to. Drop that nostalgia, such as it may be, and realize that there are so many ways in which we must progress and are overdue to progress. As far as race is concerned, we are staring in the face the very problems that were recognized 50 years ago.
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