It is in with this backdrop that today people are in the streets demanding not only justice for George Floyd, but for the heinous acts perpetrated against Blacks by the hands of those in law enforcement or those who decide to take the law into their own hands and become police, judge, jury and executioner, hunting down Blacks.
Today decent people of all races can now see what before were the nameless, faceless, people who have suffered at the hands of police and witnessed the inhumanity of a society that sometimes believes that intolerance and marginalization to their darker brothers is not real.
Today it is a struggle for the soul of a country that has to reconcile this history, and there are voices rising to re-write the history of a nation that has oftentimes created myths and propaganda cloaked in the guise of regional pride.
This is what we see today as some are demanding the removal of Confederate statues, the changing of street names and a burgeoning movement beyond this dark point in our history.
To Change History is to Make History
Today it is encouraging to see the soldiers in this fight of different backgrounds shouting that “Black Lives Matter” and standing shoulder to shoulder with their fellow human beings.
