MLK Day: Americans marking Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and birthday as fears of deep... - 0 views
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But at the same time, he's struggling to come to grips with the deep racial divisions roiling the nation
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As the nation marks the holiday honoring King, the mood surrounding it is overshadowed by deteriorating race relations in an election season that has seen one candidate of color after another quit the 2020 presidential race.
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People have the right to be — and should be — concerned about the state of race relations and the way people of color, in particular, are being treated
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You can't understand a minority if you've never been in a minority situation. Even though you can advocate for us all day, you could never understand the issues we go through on a daily basis."
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people are showing their hatred openly, but it doesn't mean it wasn't there," Savitt said. "There is a coming realization in our country. We have to come to a reckoning about our past and the truth about our history from slavery to the lynching era to Jim Crow. Only with real honesty about our situation can we come to some reconciliation and move on to fulfill King's hope and dream of a real, peaceful multicultural democracy."
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In 2018, there were more than 7,000 single-bias incidents reported by law enforcement, according to FBI hate crime statistics. More than 53% of the offenders were white, while 24% were black. Nearly 60% of the incidents involved race, ethnicity and ancestry.
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"With Trump, he has pushed the American nationalist identity that I think tamps down the kind of conflicts we would have,"