Today, Delain Law Office, PLLC joins the world in mourning the loss of George Floyd. We pray for his family and friends as they lay him to rest, and we pray for every family who has lost a loved one at the hands of violence … especially police violence. We pray for their strength and for their healing. And we pray that they forgive us all for failing them so completely.
It has been more than one hundred and fifty years since Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, more than 50 years since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, more than 10 years since we elected our first African American president. Many, many lives have been lost. Still, there is still no justice under the law for African Americans. It is still not safe to be Black in this country.
We live in a nation divided by race. African Americans have glaringly different outcomes than do those of European descent when it comes to nearly every system that has been erected in this country. Racism negatively impacts employment, housing, health, safety, and financial wellbeing.
We at Delain Law Office are shocked and saddened by the actions of the officers who callously and needlessly took Mr. Floyd from his family. That his six-year-old daughter can see that her daddy changed the world is amazing … and tragic. The world should already have undergone this change. We find it reprehensible that it so clearly has not.
I am a white woman, and I recognize that I sadly hold a privilege in our society based solely on the color of my skin. That privilege rings truly hollow when it comes at the price of innocent lives, regardless of the color of that life’s skin. Today, and every day, I stand in solidarity with the Black community. I stand ready to listen and to serve.
#BlackLivesMatter.