"Performative distraction" acknowledged, I still find the reality of the Mayor of DC commissioning this outside the White House incredibly powerful, not just the idea of it. What else is changing? According to a poll in the New York Times "76 percent of Americans — including 71 percent of white people — called
racism and discrimination 'a big problem' in the United States. That’s a 26-percentage-point spike since 2015" and that tastes like spring water, even if people always do play nice when it comes to polls. Something else that's changed - I've started bothering to tick the "Yes! Tell me if this pettion wins" and here's one you might like: "Teach British children about the realities of British Imperialism and Colonialism"... I was walking along Regents Canal again this evening, conscious that as a Londoner - even under lockdown - I'm incredibly lucky to benefit from centuries of
infrastructure built for the receipt and distribution of resources taken
from countries suffering infrastructures built solely to extract
them, and I thought that that was probably as worth knowing about as, say, the Spanish Armada. That "resource extraction" overview by the way is a total theft from John Green. I get everything from youtube.
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