We are What We Consume: The COVID effect ?

It is June 3rd, 2020. This is a part 2 of  "We are what we consume". 

USA has come a long way in last 50 years: It is probably the only nation that has achieved the racial unity most expeditiously.  

1960: Muhammad Ali

Cassius Clay, Ali traveled to the 1960 Rome Games to compete in the light heavyweight division. Despite being only 18, he won all four of his fights easily. In the final he defeated three-time European champion Zbigniew Pietrzykowski to win the gold medal.

A Black American born in Louisville, Kentucky, was the young Olympian who brought pride to the great nation of USA. Yet, Ali was refused service at a Louisville restaurant after he returned home as an Olympic gold medal winner.

America was segregated. 

1971: The beginning of de-segregation

April 20, 1971 | Supreme Court Rules That Busing Can Be Used to Integrate Schools.

The movie: Remember the Titans - captures it very vividly. 

Fast forward to 2008:

America gets its first Black President. 

President Obama wins in a landslide election with Voters turnout the highest since 1960.

Today:

So why are 40+ cities of this great nation in distress over the same issue that those in 1971 experienced. (hopefully not that intensely)

May be it even feels worse than that to many, because majority of Black population, alive today, did not experience the era before 1971. They do not expect to be ill-treated or assumed criminal for their color. 

Why are the protests, specifically about illegal, ill treatment of black victims, turning into a White Vs Black ?

Why is a person living in the most racially integrated cities like NYC, inherently believed that she can call cops on a Black person and punish him for him being black ?

Note: Amy Cooper worked from Franklin Templeton, a 6 billion USD giant, guaranteed to have a periodic training about diversity and inclusion. 

Point being - Amy, is well informed, well exposed and privileged enough to evolve beyond the color of the skin of fellow human. She clearly understood her privilege that she can hurt a black person and get away with it.

May be ... just may be ... it is about what we (as the nation) have been consuming in recent years. Are we asking the correct questions - are we making sure that we promote only the good and nothing but the good - are we letting our guards down, standards lowered, just because ....

America is great because Americans are the most fair, honest and hard-working humans on the planet. Let us strengthen our beliefs and reject every idea, every person, every act, every behavior, every speech, everything ... that promote hate. 

Let us restore decency, fairness, quality, decorum and leadership.

Economy is function of Unity, let us not allow a small minority of humans who has an agenda otherwise, to ruin it all. Recognize them, reject them, defeat them.