We Wouldn’t Be Americans If Not for “Thugs”
To make sense of our present, perhaps we should understand our past.
3 min readMay 30, 2020
Yesterday, shortly after midnight in Washington D.C., in a tweet flagged for glorifying violence, the president referred to the protesters in Minneapolis as “thugs.”
It’s a heavy term to be used, especially as we saw a video of one of the first acts…