Assemblymember Dr. Shirley Weber, Chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus
One thing is clear this Juneteenth: change cannot wait.
We protest the killings of unarmed Black people and the systemic inequities legally written into this country’s fabric.
Across the country, we are seeing a wave of reforms to address police brutality, whose victims are overwhelmingly Black.
Black communities have been historically undercounted in the Census, dating back to the very first one in 1790.
Participating in the Census alone may not be enough to bring the change our society needs – yet it is still an absolutely necessary component.
