By Jack P. Shonkoff, Center on the Developing Child Harvard University, June 5, 2020
The recent, brutal killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, and the broad civic unrest they have fueled, are focusing a bright light, yet again, on the deep structural inequities and systemic racism that continue to plague our country.
Is it possible that one more brutality piled on so many before it was finally too much? Is it possible that this is a turning point in understanding and addressing the ways in which racism eats away at an entire society while ravaging some far more than others? Is it possible that the past week is the beginning of real change?
We join all the voices raised in outrage and stand unequivocally with all who are experiencing injustice, racism, and inequality in the U.S. and around the world, and all who are working for change. This is a struggle that has a long history, but it is a struggle that must succeed.
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