A Country In Crisis

Are We Tired Of Winning Yet?

As if over 100,000 dead from a pandemic were not enough, now our cities are on fire. The system has failed. Can it be rebooted?

“Fighting fire with empty words

While the banks get fat

And the poor stay poor

And the rich get rich

And the cops get paid

To look away

As the one percent rules America”

-Queensrÿche, 1988

I cried tears of joy on election day 2008. Riding a wave of “change we can believe in,” our first African-American president had been elected, clearing the path for an America that would finally exorcise its original sin of building its foundation on the backs of slaves. Hope soon gave way to reality.

From the Prison Policy Initiative report: Incarceration is not an equal opportunity punishment

As Barack Obama pulled the country out of Bush’s Great Recession, black families fell further behind. The president’s record-breaking streak of job recovery reduced the unemployment rate for African Americans, but the gap between the rates for whites and blacks persisted. Against the backdrop of an…