News of disgraced Officer Chauvin’s guilty verdict broke this afternoon far quicker than I expected. I thought the deliberations would be drawn out so I was surprised when I looked up at the TV screen while eating lunch with my wife at a restaurant only to realize that ESPN was cutting away to announce the outcome of a jury’s deliberation that I thought would be drawn out for a couple of weeks. My immediate reaction was one of relief mixed with sadness for the family of George Floyd.
But after the initial emotions wore off, I was left with a numbing feeling that nothing has changed. While Democrats pretend that justice was delivered and Republicans are trying to figure out how to turn this ruling into a red meat to throw at their base, the festering issues of social and economic inequalities that are gashing all of us will continue to go unaddressed. Today’s celebration will quickly return to the status quo; we are so conditioned to focus on outrageous annulments of justice that we ignore the everyday injustices that indenture most Americans into a life of financial anxiety or outright privation....continued...
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