Opinion

Kit Candlin writes: America remains a starkly racialised and racist state. Many white, and some black, conservative Americans have thrown up their hands in apathy

By Dr Kit Candlin
Updated April 15 2021 - 12:45am, first published June 5 2020 - 7:30am
AT WAR WITH ITSELF: "Black lives Matter is a relatively new phrase, but it accurately reminds the quiet, forgetful Americans that the detail of the nation matters as much as the flag," Dr Candlin writes.
AT WAR WITH ITSELF: "Black lives Matter is a relatively new phrase, but it accurately reminds the quiet, forgetful Americans that the detail of the nation matters as much as the flag," Dr Candlin writes.

I remember the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992, one of the largest and costliest race riots that has occurred in the United States in a history filled with them.

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