The guilty verdict in the George Floyd murder trial isn’t about police reform or political reform. It’s about personal reform. It’s recognizing that murder is murder whoever does it and that justice represented as “blind and balancing scales” has been out of balance for people of color for a very long time. The verdict is about individuals. People have to care enough about other people to make the right and good choice when confronted with any crime against their fellow man especially murder, the most monstrous. It may mean forgoing privilege, or turning the other cheek or simply standing up, but it needs to be done if we are all to move up, not simply forward. Some folks are extolling this a a milestone or turning point. We need to continue to work, and work diligently towards a society that recognizes and accepts equality for everyone. It’s not the line in the sand. It’s the continued journey.
Jackie Robinson
“But as I write these words now I cannot stand and sing the National Anthem. I have learned that I remain a black in a white world.”
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson Day, April 15, 2021, the 74 anniversary of Robinson’s historic debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Today, one of the great sights in baseball: an entire league wearing No. 42 as a tribute to the man who broke baseball’s color barrier. But the quote from his autobiography shows he clearly understood and felt the racial injustice in America. As you remember him remember the next Jackie Robinson may be murdered before he has a chance to contribute to the world simply because he’s Black.
Black History Month
History doesn’t matter to the man who has to feed his family tomorrow. What matters are the actions he must take today.
This banner was flown by the NAACP’s NYC office from 1920-1938 every time a black person was lynched I’m America. Even once was too much. Most importantly, we most stop the continued “lynchings”.
Fried Chicken & Philosophy 