Ken Burns says US is experiencing its fourth 'great crisis'

Documentarian Ken Burns said that the U.S. is in the midst of the fourth “great crisis” in its history as President Trump prepares to leave the White House. "We're beset by three viruses, are we not?" Burns said on NPR, citing "a year-old COVID-19 virus, but also a 402-year-old virus of white supremacy, of racial injustice. ... And we've got an age-old human virus of misinformation, of paranoia, of conspiracies." Those three factors, he said, have contributed to the U.S.’s fourth major crisis, following the Civil War, the Great Depression and World War II.“We're beginning to have a racial reckoning. More people voted than ever before. ... Poll workers defied the coronavirus, voters defied the coronavirus and held the safest and most accurate vote in our history. Courts upheld every challenge to that,” he told NPR. “We have a woman as a vice president — we have a woman of color as a vice president — this is a time not for rejoicing, but to remember that in order to gather strength to deal with these dark moments, we have to actually remember to let in the light that is right in front of us.”...MORE