What is the difference between a lynching and a white knee forcing the life out of a black man? The murderer wears the trappings of the state.
What is the difference between a Black teen and a white teen? The Black teen is four times more likely to be arrested.
What is the difference between being a child in a white family and a child in a Black family? Black children are twice as likely to be hungry.
What is the difference between a white man and a Black man? The Black man is twice as likely to be without a job.
What is the difference between being white and Black in America? When a pandemic hits, you are twice as likely to die if you are Black.
What is the difference between being white and Black in America? If you are Black, you are twice as likely to be living in poverty.
What is the difference between the cop who murdered George Floyd and every person who is white, who has power or privilege or a voice, who does nothing in response?
Nothing.
Is now finally the moment white people in this country can stop pretending that not having a criminal record or having enough food or a job is the result of achievement or merit or worth?
Is now finally the moment when white people in this country can stop pretending that they are not responsible for the generational harm they have perpetrated on Black people and communities?
Is now finally the moment for reparations?
We’re hosting a Town Hall this week (time to be announced) to mourn, to share solidarity, to recommit to examining our own institutional and systemic racism, to consider what one law school can do to make a difference.