Amani and Sarangi: Peace, protests and prejudice
(World News Science)

By Lorenzo Amani and Sudipta Sarangi Amani is a doctoral student in the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Tech. Sarangi is a professor in the Department of Economics in the College of Science at Virginia Tech. The death of George Floyd seems to have pushed us over a tipping point — there is now widespread talk of excessive use of force by the police and racial discrimination. America appears to be ideologically polarized, with people choosing to firmly stand on one extreme side or the other. The two cornerstones of our nation`s ideology: freedom and equality seem to be at odds with the way we live our daily lives. Are all men and women created equal? Article 6.1 of the...