Diary 81

Sunday, June 7th

And still the protests continue, peacefully. People truly are astonishing, generous, and in love with positive change.

Minneapolis City council has pledged to defund and abolish the Police Department. Other cities are mulling the same idea.

In England today the statue of the notorious Eighteenth Century slaver Edward Colston was pulled down by a crowd, then rolled over the dock wall and into the harbor.  About time.

We are, all of us, starting to face the ugly legacy of centuries of racism and oppression. That slaver, and hundreds like him, made some people in England wealthy, and made some people in America even more wealthy. Slavers were blessed by the Bishops in Winchester and London whose brothels funded the Oxford Colleges and sent the Empire Builders out to loot Africa and India… These are all the results of profits created out of human misery.

This web is deep and frightening. We must face it. We are brave enough, and we have enough love. The time is now.