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More than five months into protests against racism and police violence, Dallas activist Tramonica Brown has seen turnout dwindle.

As the founder of the Not My Son nonprofit focused on police accountability and reform, shes not all that surprised that some people have checked out from the movement.

Anytime something big happens, everybody comes out, Brown said. One, people come out to be nosy. Two, people come out because they want to be seen and they want to think that theyre a part of a movement. And the all-time favorite: They want to take a few pictures and say Hey, I did my part for today.

But she said fewer protesters doesnt mean the support for dismantling systemic racism isnt still widespread. Her organization has shifted its attention toward getting people to the polls, hosting voter drives and other events. Brown said she still sees allies of different racial backgrounds doing work that helps the movement.

I dont consider it a decrease, because I see allies doing the right thing: building up Black people to where they should be, not to the placement of where America would like for us to systematically fall, she said.

Pew Research Center surveys show public support for the Black Lives Matter movement surged in June amid worldwide protests after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on George Floyds neck and killed him. That increase included a swell in support among white people, according to Pew. But a few months later support returned to its pre-June level.

In North Texas, Brown said, the movement against racism and police violence is at a different point than a few months ago. Worries about coronavirus and the election mean the protests occupy a smaller place in peoples minds.

As a result, she said, major events such as a Kentucky grand jurys decision to issue no charges in the killing of Breonna Taylor in September, didnt draw as much outrage as they would have a few months earlier.

Still, Brown said protesters' energy remains strong with or without the massive support they appeared to have several months ago.

Those white allies were not allies that we had to begin with, Brown said. They were just there as an extra body. They helped fill up space.

Black Lives Matter is a decentralized movement, founded in 2013 by three Black organizers after George Zimmerman was acquitted of murder in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida.

According to Pew, 55% of respondents supported Black Lives Matter in a 2017 phone poll conducted nationally. That figure rose to 67% at the height of protests in June. More white people than ever before including 37% of white Republicans said they at least somewhat supported the movement then.

But both of those figures dipped in Pews most recent survey, which was released in September.

Support among whites dropped to 45%, and as low as 16% among white Republicans. Support among Latinos also declined by 11 percentage points, and by six points among Asian-Americans. Support among Black respondents rose to 87% adding one percentage point since June.

Its not just support from white people thats waned, said Dwight D. Watson, associate professor emeritus of history at Texas State University. But he said whiteness in particular allows some to detach from other races' historic moments.

Whiteness gives people the ability to slip in and out of things that other people cant, Watson said.

Watson said individuals' dispositions towards social issues such as racism are heavily influenced by their parents. And since white people dont undergo life on the same terms as Black people, theyre able to check out from movements when they perceive their own privilege to be at risk.

Youre out protesting about police brutality but youve never been a victim of police brutality, Watson said. So, the selfish part of your human nature steps up.

Researchers describe race as just a part of the conversation. Politics also play a role in shaping public opinion, said Juliana Horowitz, associate director of social and demographic trends research at Pew and one of the studys lead researchers.

As with many things that we study, this is very much a partisan story, Horowitz said. We see that frequently, not only in studies of race, but gender and pretty much any social or political issue that we talk about.

Those national trends apply in Texas, said Kenneth Bryant, a professor of political science at the University of Texas at Tyler.

According to a Dallas Morning News-UT Tyler poll released Oct. 25, 72% of Texas Democrats said they had a favorable view of Black Lives Matter, while 83% of Republicans did not.

President Donald Trump has denounced Black Lives Matter, decrying the movement as being violent and destructive, although studies show only a small percentage of protests have resulted in violence or property damage. Democrat Joe Biden has been more supportive, while still distancing himself from some political ideas voiced at some protests, such as defunding the police.

Bryant also found that some respondents reacted negatively to certain slogans but responded more positively to the ideas behind them.

For example, the poll, conducted Oct. 13 through 20, asked whether respondents supported or opposed defunding the police. Only 25% of respondents said they supported the idea at all, and 60% said they at least somewhat opposed it.

But when the survey reframed the idea as cutting some funding from police departments to increase spending on social services in your community, 37% of respondents said they at least somewhat supported the idea, with 49% voiced at least some opposition.

Bryant suspects that a similar phenomenon may be occurring with the phrase Black Lives Matter.

"I gather a lot of white people differentiate between the organization of Black Lives Matter and the idea that Black lives matter,' Bryant said. Some people agree with the notion but disagree with the negative projections that have been put upon the movement.

Across North Texas, protest organizers have seen that shift play out in different ways.

For example, in Plano, thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest in recent months.

Cheryl Jackson, who organized one of those rallies in June, said that she hasnt seen much of a decline in support but that the prolonged effects of the pandemic have been a barrier to change.

COVID-19 stopped all of the movement, said Jackson, the founder of Minnies Food Pantry. I hate that because this is an opportunity for our country to take our conversation about race relations to the next level.

One day before her protest, people staged a demonstration against racism and police violence in the streets of Waxahachie.

Lillian Ayro, a Black business owner and pastor who spoke at that event, called it one of the most remarkable days of her life.

We began to have dialogue; we began to have conversations, she said recently. It was refreshing to hear that conversation going on with my white sisters and white brothers.

Ayro said many of the allies she knows have remained steadfast in their support. She pointed to a Facebook group, of which shes the only Black member, where white women share resources to educate themselves on systemic racism.

Still, she said some people in her community get caught up in leveling unrelated accusations and false equivalencies while ignoring Black Americans' four centuries of accumulated pain.

I think what they forget is that this thing has been going on for so long, Ayro said. People have been silent for so long, and the Black community has been dealing with it for generations and generations.

Brown, the founder of Not My Son, said whites may not see the generational trauma racism has caused.

White people werent hung in front of their mothers and their children, Brown said. (They) dont have to pass by or hear about hanging trees that used to exist.

When protests ramp up again, Brown hopes the people who show up do so because they truly want to see the pain of Black Americans healed.

Fifty years from now, we can be in the same place, Brown said. Thats not good enough. We dont accept that. We want the same respect that you would want had it been you, had it been your ancestors.

CORRECTION, 10:45 a.m. on Nov. 5: This story has been updated to remove a photo of a person who is not a subject of the article.

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Over the summer my social media feeds, and hopefully yours as well, was full of posts about how to support black writers and creators. In the process I stumbled upon Bullets Into Bells, a free eBook that contains a collection of poems about gun violence. I picked it up on Apple Books in September and have been amazed by the people of colors names Ive never heard. Maybe you have never heard of them either. With that in mind, I am writing this in hopes of memorializing the victims so you will know their names. Even more, as the Internet has echoed for the last 226 days since the murder of Breonna Taylor, I write this in hopes that you will say their names and demand justice.

Tahar Djaout

Tahar Djaout was an Algerian poet and journalist who was gunned down in the summer of 1993 in the streets of Algiers. He died a week after being shot at the age of 39. His killers, a terrorist group, admitted that they killed Djaout because he wrote of progression within minorities.

Djaouts best work to summarize his life is the statement he wrote, If you speak, you die. If you keep quiet, you die. So, speak and die. Djaouts sentiment plays on what most of us have seen throughout the Black Lives Matter movements life can end, but what was said before and after it is forever.

Tamir Rice

Tamir Rice was a 12-year-old boy walking down the sidewalk with a toy gun when he was brutally murdered by the police. An onlooker originally called the police to report someone who was probably a juvenile was wielding a gun, but then stated it probably was not a real one.

Tamirs mother Samaria Rice says that he was an all-American kid, and writes, When I lost Tamir, I lost a piece of myself. No police have been charged on the shooting that occurred November 22, 2014. As a result, neither Tamir nor Samaria Rice have received justice. Its been 2,164 days.

John D. Morant

Antonius Wiriadjaja was 30 years old when he met John D. Morant. Wiriadjaja himself had just been shot in Brooklyn, when Morant, a barber in the area, saw him on the street and applied pressure to keep Wiriadjaja alive. Wiriadjaja writes, I tried to keep in touch, but, a year after my shooting, John went away to see family and friends in the South. I called him up and got no answer.

In June 2014, Morant himself was shot to death in the back in a South Carolina trailer park. He left behind a job he loved at his brothers barbershop in New York.

Eric Garner

Eric Garner had been arrested 30 times when he was caught yet again by police. This time in July 2014 was because he had been accused of illegally selling a single cigarette. When Garner resisted arrest, New York City policeman Daniel Pantaleo held Garners head down until he died as Garner protested, he was failing to breathe.

The video, filmed by an onlooker, was shown to a jury who voted Pantaleo was innocent later that December. There has been no justice for Eric Garner. Its been 2,293 days.

Michael Brown

Michael Brown was shot in Missouri two days before starting college. It was August 9, 2014 when he and his friend allegedly stole a pack of cigarillos from a convenience store. The pair fled the scene when they were caught up to by police officer Darren Wilson. As they were running, Wilson began shooting. Brown was shot six times three times in the arm, once in the eye, once in the skull, once in the neck, and once through his chest. A grand jury voted Wilson was innocent. There has yet to be justice served for Michael Brown. Its been 2,270 days.

Philando Castile

Philando Castile was driving through a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota in July 2016. Castile was pulled over by Officer Jeronimo Yanez for a brake light that was out. Castile immediately admitted to Yanez that he had a firearm in the car, but Yanez said that he misread the statement as a threat. Yanez turned to get his license out and was shot.

The entire exchange was livestreamed by Castiles girlfriend on Facebook for ten minutes. Mr. Yanez was fired, but the jury found him not guilty. There has been no justice served for Philando Castile. Its been 1,573 days.

Stephon Clark

On March 18, 2018, a yearlong investigation was launched to understand the shooting of an unarmed black man. Stephon Clark, 22, was shot seven times in Sacramento, California in his grandmothers backyard. Police received word that a man had broken car windows, and while looking for the perpetrator, decided Clark was him.

A year later in March 2019, the investigation concluded that Clark was innocent, not guilty. Even worse, the two police officers that shot him were found not guilty, too. There has still been no justice served for Stephon Clark. Its been 995 days.

Breonna Taylor

Breonna Taylor died in her own home on March 13, 2020 when she was shot eight times by police. She was in bed around 12:30 a.m. with her boyfriend Kenneth Walker when they heard what they thought was burglars. Policemen Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove claim that they knocked on the door several times and announced their presence, but multiple neighbors stated that this was not true.

On September 23, 2020, a grand jury indicted Officer Hankison for wanton endangerment, which basically means he was only guilty for sending a bullet shot through the neighbors wall. There has been no justice, however, for the taking of Breonna Taylor. Its been 235 days.

George Floyd

In a manner that relit the flames of the Black Lives Matter movement, George Floyd was brutally killed after a police officer took a knee on his neck.

On May 25, 2020, Floyd was leaving a convenience store when the cashier believed the 20-dollar bill he used to pay with was counterfeit. The police were contacted, and upon arrival Officer Thomas Lane drew his gun immediately. Floyd was not compliant until he was put in handcuffs, in which case afterwards he did as he was told. He got on the ground, and Officer Derek Chauvin put his knee against Floyds neck. A witness began videoing as Floyd stated he couldnt breathe, and that he was going to die. The eight-minute video has been viewed billions of times. Chauvin was later arrested for second degree murder.

Justin Howell

At an Austin, Texas Black Lives Matter protest in May, Justin Howell was standing next to a protestor that threw a water bottle at a crowd of police officers. An officer fired back with beanbag rounds, one hitting Howell in the head. He suffered a fractured skull and brain damage. Howells brother Joshua has said that his recovery will be a marathon, not a sprint.

Since it is unknown which officer shot, it is rather difficult to know which is responsible. As a result, there is no justice for Justin Howell, who was simply exercising his right to protest. Its been 156 days.

Sean Monterrosa

In a small northern city of San Francisco, an unarmed 22-year-old black man named Sean Monterrosa was shot by a policeman. Monterrosa was protesting outside of a Walgreens when officers responded to a call about looting. Detective Jarrett Tonn assumed Monterrosa was looting, and shot at him through his own truck, not a city-owned police car. Monterrosa went to his knees and raised his hands.

Surveillance footage then suggests Monterrosa was shot. There has been no justice served. The June 2 killing occurred 155 days ago.

Sandra Bland

Sandra Bland had moved from the suburbs of Chicago to Prairie View, Texas to pursue a job opportunity in the summer of 2015. When she was pulled over by Officer Brian Encinia for a routine traffic violation, he asked her to put out her cigarette. Bland replied, Why do I have to put out a cigarette when Im in my own car? Encinia then commanded her to get out of the car, and following her refusal, he opened the car door, grabbed her, and attempted to pull her out. He then threatened to tase her, so she stepped out.

The two then walk around to the other side of the car. While they cannot be seen on the dash cam footage, a bystander filmed Encinia and a female officer standing over Bland. Bland is on the floor stating she cannot hear and that she is epileptic. Encinia replies, Good. Bland is said to have committed suicide in prison three days later, but rumors, as well as an HBO documentary provide context on how Encinia may have killed Bland and made it look like a suicide.

Encinia was later charged for perjury, not for the distress caused to Bland and her family. There has been no justice served for the pain brought to Sandra Bland. Its been 1,939 days.

Trayvon Martin

Trayvon Martin was an African American teen walking home from the convincing store when he was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer. George Zimmerman shot the 17-year-old on February 26, 2012. Zimmerman had called a non-emergency line of the Sanford police, which advised him not to follow Martin. He did not listen and shot the boy. Martin had been visiting his father, made a trip to buy Skittles and a bottle of juice, and was murdered. Zimmerman was prosecuted for second-degree murder on April 11, 2012.

Freddie Gray

In April of 2015, Baltimore saw the death of Freddie Carlos Gray Jr. Gray was arrested in the Gilmore Homes Housing Authority by three police officers on bike patrol. An hour later, a medic was called due to Gray being unconscious and not breathing. A week later, on April 19, Gray passed away due to a cervical spine injury.

Deputy Commissioner Jerry Rodriguez stated a week later, We have no evidence, physical or video or statements, of any use of force. Protests began on May 1, 2015. Two years later in court, the officers were found not guilty over the mysterious death of Freddie Gray. There has been no justice served for him. Its been 2,026 days.

Akai Gurley

On November 20, 2014, Akan Gurley was walking down the stairwell of his apartment complex with his girlfriend in Brooklyn when he was shot. NYPD officer Peter Liang was a rookie policeman when he was patrolling the area and was startled by Gurley walking down the stairs. Prosecutors stated that Liang was reckless and did little to help the dying victim. Liang was subsequently fired and convicted of second-degree manslaughter and official misconduct.

The names mentioned here are only the tip of the iceberg. There are so many others who havelost their lives to gun violence and police brutality. It is up to us to take care of the next generation by electing officials that will ensure police brutality and gun violenceis closer to ending. Every bit of change starts with us, the American people, and we must show up for each other and stick up for one another.

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In a statement before a Senate hearing on October 28, Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Googles parent company Alphabet, admitted that the dominant online search company has censored the World Socialist Web Site.

At the Senate Commerce Committee hearing, when asked by Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah to provide the name of one left-wing high profile person or entity that has been censored by Google, Pichai named the WSWS.

The hearingwhich included testimony from three top tech CEOs--Pichai (Google), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) and Jack Dorsey (Twitter)had been called by the Republican-controlled committee for the purpose of promoting its completely false claim that only right-wing and conservative publishers have been censored by internet and social media corporations in the lead-up to the 2020 elections.

During his allotted time for questioning, Senator Lee asked the three executives, I think the trend is clear that you almost always censormeaning block content, fact check or label content or demonetize websitesof conservative, Republican or pro-life individuals or groups or companies... Can you name for me one high profile person or entity from a liberal ideology who you have censored and what particular action you took?

While both Dorsey and Zuckerberg refused to give namesclaiming they would provide a list at a later datewhen Lee got to Pichai, the Google executive responded that we have moderation policies which we apply equally... We have had compliance issues with the World Socialist Review [sic], which is a left-leaning publication.

Although Pichai used the name World Socialist Review, a print newsletter that ceased publication in 2011, it is clear that he was referring to the World Socialist Web Site. In fact, a Google search for World Socialist Review actually yields the WSWS in its top two results.

Pichai did not explain what he meant by compliance issues, but his response to Senator Lee was absolutely clear. He was saying that Google does in fact take censorship action against left-wing and socialist publishers, and an example is the censorship of the World Socialist Web Site.

The extraordinary admission by Pichai that Google has been suppressing content from the WSWS is a vindication of the campaign launched by the International Committee of the Fourth International against online censorship going back to the spring 2017.

In April 2017, following the implementation by Google of a new search algorithm, the WSWS reported that access to its content and that of other left-wing, anti-war and progressive websites was being heavily censored. In an article published on August 2, the WSWS published data that showed traffic to 13 websites had been reduced by Google between 19 percent and 67 percent. The data showed that the World Socialist Web Site has been the most heavily affected. Its traffic from Google searches has fallen by two thirds.

The WSWS characterized the modification of Googles search algorithm as a corporate-state conspiracy to drastically curtail democratic rights and then called for broad-based collaboration among socialist, left and progressive websites to alert the public and the widest sections of the working class.

The analysis was then followed on August 25, 2017 by an open letter from David North, chairperson of the WSWS International Editorial Board, to the executive leadership of Google and Alphabet demanding a halt to internet censorship. The letter called on Google to stop blacklisting the WSWS and renounce the censorship of all the left-wing, socialist, anti-war and progressive websites that have been affected adversely by your new discriminatory search policies.

The open letter further stated that the censorship of the WSWS reflects the fear that a genuine socialist perspective, if allowed a fair hearing, will find a mass audience in the US and internationally. There is widespread popular opposition to your efforts to suppress freedom of speech and thought.

As part of this campaign, the WSWS circulated an online petition that garnered thousands of signatures from readers in 70 countries and on five continents.

Although Google never officially responded to the open letter, the New York Times published an article on September 26, 2017 by Daisuke Wakabayashi that featured an interview with David North and discussed the campaign by the WSWS. Then, in a follow-up article, the Times attempted to discredit the claims of the WSWS that Google was engaged in censorship.

In November 2019, the Wall Street Journal substantiated the position of the WSWS that Google was manipulating its search algorithm to suppress content from being surfaced by its search engine. The Journal wrote, Despite publicly denying doing so, Google keeps blacklists to remove certain sites or prevent others from surfacing in certain types of results.

On January 20, 2020, the WSWS published an article titled Google suppressing World Socialist Web Site content in its search results for the New York Times 1619 Project. This article showedthrough independent data analysisthat the authoritative and widely read material published by the WSWS on the historical falsification called The 1619 Project was being suppressed in Google search results.

The recent statement by Pichai is the second time he has misnamed the World Socialist Web Site in congressional testimony. In a hearing of the House Committee on the Judiciary on July 29 titled Examining the Dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, Pichai responded in a similar manner to a question from Republican Congressman Greg Steube.

When Steube claimed that Googles algorithms were exclusively censoring conservative political views online, Pichai said, We do get complaints across the aisle. For example, the World Socialist Review [sic] complained in January of this year that their site wasnt found in Google search results. So, we get complaints, we look into it, but we approach our work in a nonpartisan way, and it is in our long-term incentive to serve users across the country.

Although he did not explain it, the statement by Pichai before the House committee was clearly regarding the WSWS assertion in January that content about The 1619 Project was being suppressed.

This public admission was followed by a second open letter on July 31 from WSWS Editorial Board Chairperson David North to CEO Pichai. The open letter stated: The fact that you referred specifically to the WSWS complaint in your congressional testimony speaks to the seriousness with which the matter was taken. You, the CEO of Googles parent Alphabet, were notified of the complaint. Six months after the article was published, it remained fixed in your memory.

David North then asked, why was the World Socialist Web Site never informed that its claim of suppression was being discussed within Alphabet/Google management, or that an investigation was being conducted into our complaint? Neither Pichai nor anyone else from the management of Google ever responded to this question or the open letter.

It is highly significant thatafter more than three years of stonewalling and refusing to answer any questions or respond to a single demandCEO Pichai has admitted that the technology firm controlling nearly 90 percent of worldwide search traffic has been suppressing WSWS content all along.

Why is the WSWS being censored by Google? Because the WSWS is the only online source of genuine Marxism and socialist internationalism that stands for the political independence of the working class and fights to put an end to the capitalist system on a world scale. As the struggles of the working class intensify amid the crisis sparked by the global pandemic, the recently relaunched WSWS is increasingly becoming the center of socialist political, theoretical and cultural education for masses of workers and young people throughout the globe.

Given the collaboration of Alphabet and Google with the US intelligence state, the statement by Pichai must be understood as a message to the American political establishmentwhich did not question him further on the matterthat the censorship of the WSWS will be continued and intensified in the coming period.

Along with the fight for the freedom of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange, the demand for an end to online censorship and the defense of freedom of speech on the internet are fundamental democratic rights that must be taken up by the international working class.

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The CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google are facing a grilling by GOP senators making unfounded allegations that the tech giants show anti-conservative bias. Their focus includes Section 230, a law relating to unfettered internet speech. (Oct. 28) AP Domestic

Facebook and Twitter may not be on the ballot, but they're getting dragged into the presidential election in its final hours.

The recurring theme from President Donald Trump's campaign: Blame Big Tech.

Tuesday, Trumps lawyer Rudy Giuliani gave an interview to Russian state media outlet RT in which he accusedtech companies of being maniacally anti-Trump and censoring information about Hunter Bidens business dealings to tip the election to former Vice President Joe Biden.Giuliani claimed the Democratic Party is under Silicon Valley'sthumb.

They dont do any censorship to favor Trump. The censorship is against Trump and to elect the guy they control, Joe Biden, Giuliani said.

His comments echoed Trump's at a rally on Election Day eve in Fayetteville, North Carolina.AttackingBig Tech, he calledTwitter phony guys who fix the elections.

'Who the hell elected you?'Tech CEOs accused of bias against Trump and conservatives days before election

Conservatives allege election meddling: Trump-led conservatives escalate bias charges against Big Tech beforeSenate showdown

Fueling his ire was the decision by Facebook and Twitter to throttle the spread of the New York Posts coverage of Hunter Bidens business dealings. Trump said Monday that the online platforms promote unflattering media coverage of his administration.

"Its a fix," he said.

President Donald Trump and attorney Rudy Giuliani accuse social media giants of favoring Joe Biden and making decisions out of a long-standing bias against conservatives.(Photo: Carolyn Kaster, AP)

Lask week, Senate Republicans questioned the heads of Facebook, Twitter and Google on how they police content on their platforms, accusing them of politically motivated bias and suppressionand warning them of challenges to decades-old legal protections that shield them from liability for what users post.

Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg, Twitters Jack Dorsey and Googles Sundar Pichai defended their companies' moderation of conservatives posts, including Trump, before the Senate Commerce Committee.

Conservatives have complained for years that social media companies systematically silence the political speech of right-leaning users.

Tech leaders deny any partisanship, saying their policies strike a balance between allowing users to freely express themselves and keeping hate, abuse and misinformation off their platforms.

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