Optimist or pessimist?

If you read the first novel in the Harley Fremont series, Virginia Rising, you'll know I'm an optimist at heart. One of the main characters reconsiders the path they have taken. We become hopeful for real change in a problem that has plagued us almost since we became a nation. Today is one year since an officer leaned his knee into the neck of a man who could have been you or me. All of it over a questionable $20 bill. Sick. Brutal. Disgusting. Many of us rallied behind Mr. Floyd's family, we marched, we contacted our congresspeople and Senate representatives. It seemed like a turning point. It seemed like the ugly truth of racism, and especially structural racism, was being seen. There was a conviction, but has justice been served? Will we see societal changes anytime soon? The optimist in me hopes so. The pessimist is saying, well, nothing much has been corrected in that year. What do you see in our future?