Slowly, with each passing day, with each gathering of thousands, the physical monuments to white supremacy are coming down.
It is too early to tell if the immense institutional structures that erected them — policing, the very U.S. economy, the educational system, the health care system — will also be reborn in the wake of the Movement for Black Lives. I pray it is not too late.
I take some hope from what existed before
…and what exists now
Maybe the phoenix is rising.
Update 6/13/2020: A judge declared the “monument” a public nuisance, allowing the process of removal to begin. Another brick of racism demolished, so many more to remove before the whole thing crumbles. It’s a step in a long journey
