AS I write this, there are thousands of protestors right outside my work-from-home desk – in London’s Hyde Park. If I open the windows, I can probably hear them but it is a damp, grey day and I don’t want to feel cold, in addition to feeling gloomy. The crowds carry placards saying "Black Lives Matter" and social distancing seems to have been sacrificed at the more sacred altar of solidarity.
Whether any of my Facebook friends who have promptly adopted the "Black Lives Matter" frame for their profile photos have made it there in London’s cold and damp – standing shoulder to shoulder with their black brothers and sisters and their white friends.
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