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Our outrage must drive us toward justice
| We must do more to protect people of color from violence and COVID-19 |
Dear Friend,
Like many of you, I have watched the news from Minnesota with great sadness. Sadness over the violent, unnecessary death of George Floyd, but also over the long-standing inequalities his death has brought to light yet again, and over the great pain and anger on display in Minneapolis.
What we are witnessing in this country right now would have been incomprehensible to me when I first came to the U.S. It is unfathomable that in the United States, the most powerful country in the world, that we would lose 100,000 people to a virus. That we would be so woefully unprepared.
That, as we are seeing, is the greater sadness beneath George Floyd’s death — that we have still not reckoned as a country with our own inequalities. George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray: the names change, but the legacy is the same. COVID-19 has exposed these inequalities as well, with communities of color bearing a larger burden of the disease. Our systems failed them, as they failed George Floyd and so many others.
As humanitarians, our work is driven by a hunger for justice — a desire to right these failures and use our anger and sadness as a force for good. As we are seeing in Minneapolis, the whole world hungers for justice. For equality. No one — not in Minneapolis, Freetown, Caracas, Sana’a, Aleppo, or Cox’s Bazar — deserves to be treated any less than anyone else.
The world needs people like you and me to stand for justice and equity more than ever — work born from the same impulse that drove Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from inside a Birmingham jail in 1963: because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Thank you for your dedication to ensuring everyone has the health care they need and for being part of the Project HOPE community.
| With gratitude, |
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Rabih Torbay
President & CEO |
P.S. To stay up to date with our ongoing work on the pandemic crisis, you can get regular updates on this page.
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