1) Few Americans truly understand the racial schism separating white and black citizens.
Let us consider America's biography.
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2) The Reconstruction Act of 1867 granted voting rights to African Americans following the Civil War.
Newly enfranchised blacks gained a political voice for the first time in US history, winning election to southern state legislatures and even to Congress.
3) Then came the Compromise of 1877, an agreement brokered by Congress and the Supreme Court to settle the result of the disputed 1876 election.
How else can we explain these monumental and globally felt shifts?
2) People in the public eye or a position of power are being held to account.
Karma topples hubris.
3) Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years in prison, taken down by the #MeToo movement; repeated sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein arrested and died in jail last year; and Hollywood celebrities caught in the College Admissions Scandal.