The ‘Reopen’ Protests Echo America’s Racist History

There’s a lot more going on here than just wanting to get back to work

Aaron Gell
GEN
Published in
6 min readApr 24, 2020

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Photo sources: Karen Ducey, Spencer Platt, Joe Raedle, Irfan Khan/Getty Images

On Monday evening, as Georgia residents began speculating about the motivations behind Gov. Brian Kemp’s decision to begin lifting restrictions on gyms, hair salons, massage parlors, and bowling alleys, among other businesses — even before the state had met…

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Aaron Gell
GEN
Writer for

Medium editor-at-large, with bylines in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the New York Times and numerous other publications. ¶ aarongell.com