From The California Endowment, June 2020
Pain. Grief. Rage. Outrage. Frustration. Hurt.
Ironically, at around the time that George Floyd pleaded for air while a police officer’s knee was lodged into his neck, our Board of Directors was scheduled to have visited the Equal Justice Museum and the Lynching Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama – a trip postponed by the Covid-19 pandemic. The Lynching exhibit was thoughtfully constructed as a powerful reminder of America’s terrible past and history of racism; George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and Ahmaud Arbery represent fresh, painful reminders that anti-black racism and white supremacy are with us still.
And the pain is searing, cutting, and deep. How is it possible – roughly 150 years after the Dred Scott decision and the Emancipation Proclamation and 55 years after Selma, the March on Washington and the Voting Rights Act – that African-Americans specifically, and people of color generally, are still viewed as less than fully human in our nation?
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