What Joe Biden Should Promise Black Lives Matter Protesters — Now — As They Face Trump’s Storm-troopers

“Declare victory, vacate the street protests — and render Trump’s storm-troopers moot. Redirect the battle to the campaign trail. When elected, I will work with you to reform America.” What if Joe Biden, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, sent this message to the Black Lives Matter leadership? It might read as follows:

My friends in the Black Lives Matter movement, to all of Black America:

You have won your struggle. You have won it! Black Lives Matter has made its point, a righteous one: Black lives do matter now, in this summer of 2020, in a way that, historically, they have not mattered before. You have established a new truth: Black lives do matter. Amen.

Ever since the horrific killing of George Floyd under the knee of a white police officer in Minneapolis, the Black Lives Matter movement has argued its case in the streets, with protests that have been massive — the largest protests in all of American history — and that have been, for the most part, peaceful. Those few “protesters” causing violence did not get the BLM memo about peaceful protest.

At long last, White America has heard you. Viewing George Floyd’s killing, White America, in that awful moment, came to know something of what you have long known about America’s “systemic racism” — and what it saw is sickening, shameful. White America now believes you and, importantly, White America has…