Should progress have to occur funeral by funeral?

In 1955:

On this day in 1955, two white men abducted and murdered a 14-year-old Black boy named Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. Share this #racialinjustice https://t.co/i42tiT2xbm

— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) August 28, 2020

In 1963:

Today is the 57th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historic I Have A Dream speech at the 1963 March on Washington.

Half a century later, against the backdrop of nationwide uprisings demanding racial justice, much of his words still ring true.

Let's revisit them.

— ACLU (@ACLU) August 28, 2020

At that march in 1963, MLK said:

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, ‘When will you be satisfied?’
We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.

Police brutality.

Here we are in 2020.  It has been 65 years since Emmett Till's brutal murder.  57 years since MLK's soaring rhetoric.  A couple of days ago, the police shot a black man 7 times in the back. As his kids were watching.

Turns out that this group was always right, though I didn't initially see it that way.

Fuck the police comin' straight from the underground
A young nigga got it bad 'cause I'm brown
And not the other color so police think
They have the authority to kill a minority
Fuck that shit, 'cause I ain't the one
For a punk motherfucker with a badge and a gun

It is beyond my wildest imagination how Blacks continue on with their lives without breaking into riots all over the country.  I have the utmost respect and admiration for how they have controlled their anger.

But, one thing is clear: This white supremacist shit cannot and will not continue for much longer.

Black Lives Matter!



PS: The title of this post is derived from Max Planck's observation that science progresses one funeral at a time.