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The Time For Justice Is Now
Racial justice is critically important in order to unite this country, and not only is the time for justice now, but it is 401 years past due.
As the country eagerly anticipates a new Biden / Harris administration, the uncertainty of what this means for black Americans is looming overhead. This is because the historical lens through which many of us examine this country’s oppressive treatment of its own citizens and its response to our cries for justice, pre-dates the recent cases of racial terrorism and extra-legal police force used against black bodies. While there are those who persistently tell black people that we need to simply forget that violent part of America’s past, the fact that it is still the violent part of America’s present makes it impossible for us to forget. We have consistently witnessed how this country’s past behaviors have been an accurate predictor of its future actions.
America has abducted us, enslaved us, dehumanized us, massacred us, chained us, whipped us, raped us, tortured us, lynched us, disenfranchised us, brutalized us, criminalized us, mass incarcerated us, racially terrorized us, and systemically & systematically oppressed us for over 400 years. This is something that cannot, and should not, ever be forgotten. While the successful defeat of…
