Since George Floyd’s death, I’ve read a thousand op-eds about how sad and oppressed blacks feel, but video anecdotes and government homicide and traffic fatality data suggest instead that the USA is going through a Black Exuberance Explosion:
Here is the video showing an unidentified black male sucker punching Louisville Democrat mayor Greg Fischer (@louisvillemayor) to the ground at a #Juneteenth event on Saturday. pic.twitter.com/R7hz5erOOQ
And in New Orleans:
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It’s hard to tell from this video who started what (New Orleans mayor LaToya Cantrell’s staff is claiming Her Honor stepped in to break up a tense situation), but Democratic mayors should spend a few months in the ring each spring sparring in preparation for Juneteenth Weekend.
