US civil unrest reinforces sense of chaos and insecurity

Coupled with the public health fiasco and the economic downturn, many feel that the person responsible for this mess is sitting in the White House.

Published Thu, Jul 30, 2020 · 09:50 PM

US politics

AT THE height of civil rights protests against racial segregation in the southern United States in the 1950s and 1960s, many Americans were horrified as they watched on television white policemen in states such as Alabama and Mississippi beating up and unleashing dogs against peaceful black and white activists demanding that African Americans enjoy the same political and legal rights as other citizens - such as allowing their children to attend public education institutions.

One of the leaders of that civil rights movement was John Lewis, a black activist who went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from Georgia from 1987 until his death this month.

On Monday, an honour guard placed the coffin of the famed civil rights leader's coffin in the Capitol Rotunda, with his body laying upon the same catafalque th…