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Saturday, 26 December 2020

The year of Karen: how a meme changed the way Americans talked about racism

The image of a white woman calling police on Black people put the lie to the myth of racial innocence

There was no direct connection between the “Central Park Karen” incident in New York City and the police killing of 46-year-old George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, beyond the coincidence of timing. Time in the pandemic has been elastic and confusing, and reports of the separate incidents did not emerge immediately, but the two events occurred on Monday 25 May, Memorial Day.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2LZOZ3l

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