United We Stand

Issues of entrenched, systemic and institutionalized racism have long been matters of great concern in America. While progress was undeniably made for many black and minority Americans in education, employment, housing and other areas of social advancements since the '60s, deep and enduring remnants of racial injustice, police brutality and economic inequality remain in urban centers and rural pockets of the country. The author believes that America now stands with the eyes of the world upon it and that it is, in many ways, a moment of truth in which the country is again being tested to see how it will respond to yet another historic challenge to its system of government, the world's oldest, continuously active codified constitution, predicated on equality and the unalienable belief that all men are created equal.