Mr. Trump won the county by more than 45 points, 71 to 25 percent. A new organization called Racial Reconciliation began holding discussion groups at the Presbyterian church, with mostly white attendees. These protesters were not the Trump faithful, nor were they members of the so-called resistance. “I couldn’t believe it,” said Linda Thomas Worthy, a founder of Racial Reconciliation and one of the county’s most outspoken figures on racial issues. She would drive through downtown during the first week of the protests to try to understand who all of the people coming out to denounce racism were.

Source: New York Times July 15, 2020 09:00 UTC