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Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo SEC Chairman Jay Clayton, center, waves to a commissioner as he takes his seat between SEC Commissioners Rob Jackson, left, and Hester Peirce, at the start of a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 24, 2019. It has taken a herculean effort and immense sacrifice over almost a decade—countless people in the streets, thousands in jail, and many with permanent injuries from “nonlethal” weapons—for anti-racist protesters to begin to expand the horizon of political possibility. Not everyone in our society must expend such...…Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo SEC Chairman Jay Clayton, center, waves to a commissioner as he takes his seat between SEC Commissioners Rob Jackson, left, and Hester Peirce, at the start of a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 24, 2019. It has taken a herculean effort and immense sacrifice over almost a decade—countless people in the streets, thousands in jail, and many with permanent injuries from “nonlethal” weapons—for anti-racist protesters to begin to expand the horizon of political possibility. Not everyone in our society must expend such...WW…