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John -- My heart is heavy
today.

Black America is already being suffocated: COVID-19 is ravaging
black communities in disproportionate numbers. Our small
businesses are struggling and being shut out from critical relief
funding that is instead going to wealthy corporations.

Yet, a third pandemic has once
again reared its ugly head to plague our communities -- as
another cluster of black Americans were openly murdered by police
officers. The pandemic of police brutality.

In February, Ahmaud Arbery was shot to death by white vigilantes
in Brunswick, Georgia. In March, Breonna Taylor was gunned down
-- in her own home -- in Louisville, Kentucky by white police
officers. Just last week, a white Minneapolis police officer
kneeled for 8 tortuous minutes on the neck of an unarmed black
man -- George Floyd -- cutting off his air and snuffing out his
life.

The suffocation of Black America
is ingrained deeply in our nation’s history. Before we can expect
real change, we must first recognize that the legacy of slavery,
the affliction of racism and white supremacy, and the privilege
that whites enjoy as a result, negatively affects the lives of
Black people who live in America. Racism is alive and well in
2020, and has yet to be rooted out. And until that happens, Black
lives like Breonna Taylor’s, George Floyd’s, Ahmaud Arbery’s,
Christian Cooper’s and many more will be vulnerable to gratuitous
violence.

For 400 years, this country has
had its knee on the neck of black communities. It is long past
time we remove it -- and it will take a collective effort to do
so. Toleration alone is inadequate in order to turn the tides of
injustice. Inclusion, individual-by-individual, is what our goal
must be.

We each have a personal
responsibility to actively fight for the inclusion of Black
people in this nation that has not yet been fully realized.
That’s why I’m calling on you, John, to take a pledge to accept this responsibility and take
meaningful action in your own life.

We owe it to Breonna Taylor,
George Floyd, and every other black life that has been tragically
cut short to take a stand. Will you take my pledge to commit to
take personal responsibility for fighting for inclusion?
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TAKE THE PLEDGE >>
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The American dream shouldn’t be a nightmare for any of her
people. Thank you for joining me in taking meaningful action to
put an end to these needless traumas and tragedies.

In solidarity,

-- Hank

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Congressman Hank Johnson is a former defense
attorney, DeKalb County commissioner, small business owner, and
magistrate judge who now serves in Congress as a champion for the
middle class.

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