Troy Carter viewed 2020 protests as a multiracial coalition of the left-behind
Troy Carter · How I Built Resilience: Live with Troy Carter · Jun 6, 2020 · at 5:43
Music executive and tech investor Troy Carter discusses the broad demographics and economic frustrations driving the nationwide protests in June 2020.
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“I think what we've seen that's different with these protests, this is what I consider just a merger of the left behind, where this, these are white, black, Asian, Hispanic people that have been, you know, saddled with student debt, people who, Can't pursue the American dream because of just the way that the economic divide right now, people who feel like, you know, they, they're not going to have their shot. And what we're seeing in the streets right now is just a merger of all of this built up frustration.”
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