The country is convulsing with civil unrest because we all watched George Floyd murdered by the police on camera with a casual brutality that has become emblematic of the troubled relationship between Black Americans and police authority.
Now, as another generation protests police brutality, I believe things have gotten worse, not better with this national problem.
We are educating Black children in a nation on edge, trying to uplift hope rather than sow discontent.
But, how do we approach that for Black children in the midst of a breakdown in the country’s social contract?
After meeting with a group of Black civic leaders, of which I was a part, Governor Gavin Newsom said, “The Black community is not responsible for what’s happening in this country right now — we are.
