We are coming off the most transformational year in our lifetime. A year when the murder of George Floyd in our own city sparked the largest and most interracial movement against racism and police brutality in U.S. history. A year when voters of color saved American democracy in the face of intense voter suppression and pandemic barriers. A year when we learned the true meaning of community and how much we need each other to survive.
This is progress. Not social progress. Not racial progress. Not political progress. This is human progress.
But you wouldn't know it reading headlines and scrolling Instagram, where the racist underpinnings of our society are almost glorified.
We know we were born into a racist system. We don't need to keep creating a kaleidoscope of all the different ways of looking at how Black folks are wronged by America.
Stop loving the problem. Start building the solution.
We must do what has never been done and build the vibrant Black futures that will save American communities from themselves.
Minneapolis was ground zero for a global Black Lives Matter demonstration condemning police brutality. And if we rise up to the calling of our lifetime, Minneapolis will be ground zero for a global Black Excellence demonstration showing a model of community development done differently. Black-led, culturally centered and built for everyone.
Everyone.