The country is again at a racial boiling point, as the recent killing of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers have set off a firestorm of protests across the nation including New Orleans and the World where people are crying for justice.
Justice or Just Us
Whether it is George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Philando Castile, Trayvon Martin, Sean Bell, Amadou Diallo, Rodney King, Tamir Rice; these are just a few of the names in our recent history that’s become part of a sad racial narrative that often times find Blacks losing their lives and their cries for justice and respect for their humanity being unheard.
Today those who are in the street protesting and others who sympathize are letting their voices be heard and are asking not simply for justice in the George Floyd case, but for systemic change in policing and a Criminal Justice System that’s often times been unfair to African Americans.
This fight is a relay race, where others have traveled down this road before, the challenge of who is included in the “We the People” have been going on since the inception of America, a country that’s amended itself in an attempt to become a more just nation?
We are the Change, We Desire in the World
Admittedly, the U.S. has expanded the lanes of freedom to more people today than at any other time in its history.
