George Floyd's public execution made a lifetime of anger, frustration, and pain acute for me and many Americans. But the compounding crises of structural inequality, plummeting economic mobility, mounting death tolls, and ongoing injustice and brutality have been raging for generations.
This moment we're now in should never have happened — but became destined as we failed to reckon with our hardest truths and pursue solutions bold and big enough for the problems we face as a nation.
The systemic dangers of being Black in America have been "easy" to disregard because, as Bryan Stevenson noted, "The great evil of American slavery wasn't the involuntary servitude; it was the fiction that black people aren't as good as white people, and aren't the equals of white people, and are less evolved, less human, less capable, less worthy, less deserving than white people.
Since the 1940s the odds of achieving the American Dream — a better, more prosperous life than your parents — have declined for all Americans from over 90% to barely a 50/50 chance. It may sound aspirational, but consider this. We know that solutions exist to help every young person thrive — from before birth to adulthood reaching the milestones that lead to a productive and healthy life. Many face real impediments along the way, but here too, there are proven strategies to prevent them or lessen their effects, which is critical for supporting economic mobility.
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