This year’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day comes nearly two weeks after white supremacists stormed the Capitol building in an attempted coup & 2 days before Kamala Harris is inaugurated as the first Black woman and first person of Indian descent as Vice President. /1 
It also comes after a hot, vocal summer where we witnessed the largest civil rights movement of our lifetime in the Black Lives Matter protests following the tragic deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and too many more. /2
I cannot shake this feeling that we have come so far and simultaneously moved so little.
Yet, I continue to find faith in the voices marching in the street that have grown louder, in the welcoming of one of the most diverse cabinets our federal government has ever seen, /3
Yet, I continue to find faith in the voices marching in the street that have grown louder, in the welcoming of one of the most diverse cabinets our federal government has ever seen, /3
and the awe-inspiring commitment and passion of our young folks to move the needle of justice inexorably forward.
We are in a time of pain, of change, and of truth. We must reckon with our past and continue dreaming of the future we deserve - and need. /4
We are in a time of pain, of change, and of truth. We must reckon with our past and continue dreaming of the future we deserve - and need. /4
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