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Five years after widespread protests following Breonna Taylor's death, racial progress has not been achieved.

White supremacy has resurged, fueled by attacks on critical race theory, diversity initiatives, and voting rights.

Many white leaders who pledged to "do better" in 2020 have become silent or actively hostile to racial justice efforts.

Five years ago I wrote what some regarded as a negative, disrespectful, and divisive column on America’s so-called “Great Racial Awakening of 2020” after the gruesome killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. As local and national racial unrest boiled over and the country supposedly approached a racial tipping point, some white power brokers licked their fingers and concluded the popular winds were temporaril

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