History will judge us by our response to racial inequality

Dear Neighbors:

I hope all of you are doing as well as you possibly can under the circumstances our world is currently facing. I hope we can all acknowledge that the citizens of our nation have never faced adversity equally. Many of our fellow citizens are taking to the streets to express this problem and demand a response. Disruption is an effective way to demand a response. It is necessary for the disruption to become so loud that it is an unavoidable national public conversation.

Everyone has a reaction and is talking about COVID-19 issues. In better times, everyone had a reaction and were talking about the Red Sox 2004 World Series win. We have had supportive signs out in our yards for both of these things. Silence on this issue is saying that racial inequality and police brutality are not important to you. You have the power to say and do something else, something that may be uncomfortable but that you can be proud of.

Our state’s history includes the Boston Massacre, where Crispus Attucks was the first American killed in the American Revolution in 1770, and the Boston Tea Party in 1773. Massachusetts was the first state to abolish slavery outright in 1783, and more recently we were the first state to legalize same-sex marriage in 2003. What will the history books say we did in 2020? After all, our state motto is “By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty.”

Kelley Haughey

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