The 10th Anniversary of Michael Brown’s Death – HotAir

I’ve thought for a long time now that if you were looking for the single moment when our politics changed from what it was in the not so distant past to what it is now, it was the death of Michael Brown ten years ago today. There were other cases of course (most notably Trayvon Martin’s death which was also widely misreported) but Michael Brown’s shooting was really the one that put us on a trajectory toward not just the Ferguson “uprising” but to Black Lives Matter dominating our politics. It put America on a glidepath toward more critical race theory, campus takeovers, equity initiatives, deplatforming speakers, anti-racism bestsellers, defunding the police, autonomous zones, anti-racism training, #OscarsSoWhite, Deray, Rep. Cori Bush, Robin DiAngelo and so many other shifts in the social, corporate, academic and political spheres that it’s almost impossible to overstate how much…