It’s not only police brutality at issue here, it’s a system of injustice that devalues African Americans every day.
I joined a clean-up crew in Denver’s Civic Center Park yesterday. Picking up bits of broken glass made me think more deeply about what else is broken.
State Rep. Leslie Herod decried a “pandemic” of racism. She’s right: this virus has infected our nation since well before its founding.
That’s what makes George Floyd’s murder even more painful—and the protests against it even more pressing. It’s not only police brutality at issue here, it’s a system of injustice that devalues African Americans every day.
John Hickenlooper and I discussed racial justice at a Senate forum on Saturday. Hick said, “Black Lives Matter means that every life matters.”
But that’s plainly not the point of this movement. Here’s how I put it at Saturday’s forum:
Join me for a
Virtual Town Hall on Racial Justice tomorrow night: Tuesday, June 2 at 5 pm MDT. Watch at
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Twitter @Romanoff2020.
These discussions are no substitute for action. But we’ll never dismantle structural racism if we refuse to recognize it.
Andrew Romanoff
