The momentous protests in support of Black Lives Matter represent a landmark movement for all of the oppressed, calling for justice and exposing the deep-seated hypocrisy of American exceptionalism. The “I can’t breathe” of George Floyd is the prototype of all racial suffering.
Systemic racism in our country is caught in a double bind: a denial of our own failed democracy and our self-righteous notion of humane justice that we lord over other countries. This…