On this day we are steadfast and resolute social justice warriors.
This day is no different than yesterday in the critical sense that we still have the fundamentals. Our hearts still beat fiercely for equity, we still have the love of our friends and family, we still have the warmth and comfort of home and hearth, our values are intact, and we stand in solidarity and amity with our colleagues and fellow travelers and each other.
There is no force, no matter how wretched, that can stop us from bending the arc toward justice and accountability and from delivering our ancestors and their legacy of hope and liberation from the margins of the American experience to the center of it.
We will continue to be the keepers of the flame that lights the path to justice and truth and equal opportunity.
EJS is energized to double down on its commitment to transforming the nation’s consciousness on race by championing programs and narratives that dismantle systems of racial oppression.
We will redouble our efforts to repair the nation through reparations, advance Black women’s health equity, deploy implicit bias elimination research and implementation, end the school-to-prison industrial complex, fix school discipline, cultivate diverse multiracial pipelines connected to fair housing, education, and employment opportunities, and articulate the evidence-based, historically accurate, critically informed culture narratives that advance multiracial inclusive democracy and shatter the myth of white superiority.
Please stand with us in recommitting to this work that is our salvation.
Onward.
Lisa Holder
President
Equal Justice Society
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