We still have work to do
Dear karl,
Yesterday was a powerful and hopeful day. The Derek Chauvin verdict is an important step toward justice and true accountability, with millions rightly expressing a collective sigh of relief.
Longtime Nation contributor and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison played an indispensable role in making this verdict a reality, as of course did the movements which bore persistent witness to racial injustice, brutality and violence — and still demonstrated peacefully for these last weeks and years and decades.
It is a first step. In order to truly achieve justice, we must radically reimagine public safety and community care by undertaking deep, systemic reform.
May that "bouquet of humanity" that Attorney General Ellison spoke of thrive and live with dignity. May we honor George Floyd by fighting for the passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act and the BREATHE act. May we fight to ensure accountability for all past and future activists and those members of humanity who seek justice.
May we honor those who have suffered or died at the hands of an all too often reckless and cruel policing system. And may yesterday's verdict bring renewed power and strength to the movements and humane forces in our country which have been vital to making justice more a reality than a fantasy in America.
We have work to do.
Onwards, Katrina vanden Heuvel Editorial Director and Publisher, The Nation
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