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The banners might now be gathering dust and the debates may have cooled but there’s a feeling that the reckoning on race that took place in 2020 will leave an indelible print on the years to come.
It started with a brutal killing of yet another black man, George Floyd, at the hands of the police on May 25. But something was different this time. Was it the abundance of disturbing video footage – where he heartbreakingly called out for his mother – that made this incident in Minneapolis more visceral than the countless other injustices? Or that a world in standstill, already at a low ebb due to Covid, had the space to absorb, process and then react to it?