When he looks at the genesis of today`s Black Lives Matter protests, activist and professor Todd Gitlin sees the reaction of a majority against control by a minority. Protesters, angered by racial, economic and social inequality, are reacting to minority rule, Gitlin said, making a reference to Donald Trump`s Electoral College victory, which gave him the U.S. presidency in 2016, even though he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by more than 2.8 million votes. “Even before the pandemic, it was clear that inequality was increasingly unsustainable. I mean, people won`t abide it beyond a certain point, and we have political institutions that have failed to solve our problems,” says Gitlin,...
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