1. Good problems
While the US has suffered horrific police violence against people of color, the country has come together to declare it unacceptable and that long-term changes should be made to navigate the police. It was what the late Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) called the entry “good trouble.” The kind of problems that make a difference and that can help change the world.
In Minneapolis, after George Floyd’s death was transmitted to the world, investigations revealed systematic problems within the department. This led to the intervention of the city council to discuss the redevelopment of the entire department and how the police are conducted in the city. Floyd’s six-year-old daughter said “Daddy changed the world.” Indeed, he did.
Extensive conversations also began after an unarmed, naked man in Rochester, New York, suffocated while having a clear mental health emergency. Police departments have confessed that they are frequently called upon to deal with such situations, for which they are clearly not trained.
As tensions have risen between racist groups and the Black Lives Matter, it has become clear that an overwhelming number of Americans believe there is an issue that needs to be addressed in the black community police.
Gianna Floyd, daughter of George Floyd, says “Daddy Changed The World”
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2. Manufacturers of masks, disinfectants and shield makers
In the early days of the pandemic, President Donald Trump refused to implement the Defense Production Act to create more personal protective equipment for front-line and first responders to the COVID-19 crisis. Masks became rare, and doctors and nurses became ill.
Thousands of Americans came up to help. Stories have flooded the news of families using their quarantine time to sew masks with additional barriers to keep workers safe. It has also helped the unemployed who could sell masks on sites like Etsy so that Americans can buy homemade masks instead of buying N95 masks they desperately need in hospitals. The Americans came to the GoFundMe pages to donate any money they could to help buy the necessary equipment until the government was willing to admit it was a problem.
Facial shields have also become scary, but with 3D printers and enthusiastic students at Penn, a robotics team from New Mexico, faculty from five universities, DC artists and engineers, DC students, a Missouri student and professor, isolated Chicagoans and dozens of companies stepped up to help.
Once it became clear that hand washing and sanitizing was an important step in stopping the spread, distilleries across the country went from making vodka, tequila and whiskey to making hand sanitizer.
Against the background of Trump’s failures and his government’s response, it was the Americans who came together in a time of crisis to help each other. For every eligible person who gets scared about a mask warrant in a grocery store, there were hundreds at home sewing masks to help.
The distillery goes on to make hand sanitizer
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3. The choice
While President Donald Trump would not say he is happy with that, the 2020 election got rid of the “president of Twitter.” However, the best thing about the election than the result was that it set records. For generations, the turnout has been anemic, with only occasional bursts of energy. This year was not a simple explosion, it was a wave of participation, whether some want to believe or not.
Although the elimination of the Georgian Senate will not take place until after the new year, it has already proved to attract even more voters than the November elections. Analysts believe that this is attributed to young people who were not old enough to vote in November, but who are now and want to make their voices heard.
Locally, a historic number of LGBTQ officials and women of color have also been elected, making US leaders a little more like the population.
Perhaps most memorably, however, K-Pop fans made Donald Trump look stupid.
Trump takes epic walk of shame after TikTok users and K-Pop fans take their Tulsa rally
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4. American owned institutions
It’s been a tumultuous four years under Donald Trump’s presidency, but in his latest attack on American institutions, they all seem to hold up.
Despite the appointment of a large number of judges across the country and to the US Supreme Court, these appointees refused to apply the law to give the president-elect elections without evidence. When Trump’s lawyers could not offer any, the cases were rejected. The court has shown that when the executive branch is in charge of tyranny and the legislature in cowardice, it will defend American law.
The Supreme Court rejects the electoral process supported by Trump | NBC Nightly News
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5. Kamala Harris
The California senator is a few weeks away from being appointed as the first woman, the first black woman, the first Asian-American vice president ever. Amid the crisis of Trump’s anger and threats to overthrow the election, Kamala’s memory can certainly bring a smile to American history.
I did it, @JoeBiden. https://t.co/oCgeylsjB4– Kamala Harris (@Kamala Harris)1604769807.0
6. You can’t be fired because you’re transgender
While the face of the Supreme Court was changed forever, while the great judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg was still alive, the High Court ruled in a historic 6-3 decision that Americans cannot be fired for their gender identity.
7. DACA stands
Another major Supreme Court decision was President Donald Trump’s attempt to destroy the postponed action for childhood arrivals. The program brought young people who were brought to the United States as children out of the shadows and to work or go to school without fear of deportation.
8. Buruiala
More and more states are legalizing marijuana. Although this may lead to more people embracing high life, more has begun a broader conversation about nonviolent drug offenders, especially people of color, imprisoned with ridiculous sentences. There is still a lot of work to be done, but the prisoners are enjoying the support of the Americans behind them. Most people now realize that it is foolish to arrest them because you have a bag of pots in a state that now sells it legally, much less send them to prison for ten years or more.
Justice Department aims to release 6,000 nonviolent offenders from prison
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9. The earth had a good year
The positive thing about a workplace revolution and the massive unemployment crisis has been a drop in carbon emissions. While this year they fell by a record seven percent in 2021, they are likely to return to the United States. However, other countries have taken significant steps as part of the Paris Agreement to achieve zero emissions by the middle of the century. President-elect Joe Biden will rejoin the deal, and if Democrats win in Georgia, there is a chance a new era of clean energy is on the horizon, with jobs in place.
Global carbon emissions fell sharply in 2020
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10. Animals
Because of the pandemic, more Americans have adopted pets in the last year than at any time in history. In fact, there is a historic reduction in fur friends in animal shelters. Twenty percent of those who responded to a Nielsen survey in July said they adopted one or more dogs or cats earlier this year, up from five percent last year.
Precious moments when the animals realize that they are adopted
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