Editor: Dismantling race and class discrimination are ongoing quests
Rana L. Cash, Savannah Morning News
Published
5:43 am UTC Feb. 10, 2021
Beacon Magazine and the Savannah Morning News explore the effects of race and class discrimination in Savannah institutions and offer solutions to overcoming the obstacles that divide us.
These are only a few of the timeless fights for equality that have been featured in the ongoing “Justice In My Town” series. Some seek measured but notable progress. Others demand an expedient overhaul of systems, policies and practices that keep scales perpetually unbalanced.
Savannah Morning News editor Rana L. Cash.
From small and mid-size towns, they all recently pulled up a virtual seat for a national conversation on race spanning generations and touching every corner of the country. Their stories are about battles won, but more urgently, they are about battles ongoing to stamp out the scourge of systemic racism.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
By Dr King saying, “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, he is talking about how the system oppressed and continues to oppress people of color. Many POC feel distraught when hearing the news of the increasing rates of police brutality, but often these individuals never think it will be themselves, their families or friends in these scenarios.
When the death of George Floyd flooded the media, it made me think of how this could happen to my family.
As an African-American woman, I often find it hard to live in a predominantly white neighborhood.
Kwanzaa, a colorful, festive annual celebration of African-American culture, was birthed 54 years ago during a tumultuous, ugly time in U.S. history and 2020 will go down as another such time.
For many Black Americans, watching George Floyd’s neck being crushed in May by that Minneapolis police officer’s knee crushed their spirits and took them back in time.
Multiple deaths this year of unarmed Black people at the hands of law enforcement sparked worldwide protests and propelled the Black Lives Matter movement into the center of the public consciousness.
The year, also crippled by a pandemic, was in many ways reminiscent of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, with large marches and protests, some of which turned violent.