Atlanta protests: Community voices, AJC editorial board try to make sense of chaotic night
Peaceful protests turned chaotic in Atlanta on Friday night, leading to an outcry from political leaders, activists and the community alike with the city spending Saturday focused on dealing with the aftermath of shattered glass and frayed nerves.
Online and in print, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution strives to feature a variety of community voices expressing their take on the protests and the turn they took.
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This weekend, that includes an opinion piece from The AJC Editorial Board; a new cartoon from editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich; and the text of Rev. Bernice King's and Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms' addresses to the city during the protests.
"We are better than this! We're better than this as a city, we are better than this as a country."
-Bottoms
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Ernest Greer, co-president of international law firm Greenberg Traurig, writes in a guest column that "America is losing its most precious resource, its heart. Can we find it in time to save ourselves? Or is it simply just too late?"
Former Mayor Andrew Young writes in a guest column of the protests amid the coronavirus pandemic, "Like everyone else, I wanted to get angry over the deaths of too many of my younger brethren. ... But we have also lost more than 100,000 of our citizens to an unseen, viral enemy."
You can read these stories and more in Sunday's opinion pages, including Mona Charen's take on the headline-making encounter in New York's Central Park between birdwatcher Christian Cooper and Amy Cooper, or you can find our full opinion line-up here on AJC.com:
