"That Whole Racial Reckoning Was Soooo Last Summer." How White Opinion of BLM Changed in a Year's Time

NPR's "Code Switch" podcast recently highlighted a downward trend in white support of the movement for Black lives since summer 2020.

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Last summer America was combustible. Cities across the U.S. were in flames in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder and the fury intensified the more the nation learned about the details of what happened to Breonna Taylor months prior. Millions of masked demonstrators took to the streets in the eye of the COVID-19 sto…