Clarence Page: George Floyd’s death brings back an old familiar rage

As I watched the fires in the night leap skyward over Minneapolis and watched the protest marchers pour into other streets across the nation, I was reminded of the cities that erupted in flames a half-century ago and wondered, “What’s changed?”

I still wonder. I was reminded of a still painfully relevant line from James Baldwin in the early 1960s: “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.”