Three steps forward, two steps back - Jon Fortt on Turn the Lens

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The last section of the course is called false restarts, based on the idea that there's a pattern in our history where we take three steps forward and then we take two steps back, and that might be emancipation and then botched reconstruction of civil rights. But then, you know, the approach to multiculturalism that was bussing, you know, that led to protests and didn't completely work.

And my expectation at the time of the outpouring after George Floyd was killed, a lot of people were saying, well, everything's different now and it's going to be so much better. And we're taking three steps forward. And I was like, hold on a minute. We're going to take two steps back because that's the pattern.

Now. It's still progress. So don't be completely flattened by this. But this has happened again and again. And there are people who have done work and there are principles and there are ideas that can undergird what forward progress should look like. And that's an inherent part, I think, of what we're called to do and pursue as Americans. So those were the principles behind the project.

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Jon Fortt: Leadership, Media, Black Experience | Turn the Lens podcast with Jeff Frick
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