Basic human rights, civil rights, and justice have been denied to George Floyd, Amadou Diallo, Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, and the countless, sometimes faceless others who didn’t have their last moments exposed on mobile phones.
Minority businesses will be the channel that will deliver us in restoring the country after COVID-19 and it most definitely plays a pivotal role out of our racial pandemic.
Let them also know that we may have ceded too much power to the police in the name of “law and order” and that this has allowed unscrupulous individuals to prey on Black people in a manner that runs directly from old slave control laws.
The protection of police involved in the shooting of unarmed Black people must cease.
Ms. Pinder is the former Director of the Mayor’s Office of Minority and Women-Owned Business Development and the State’s 1st Appointed Special Secretary of the Governor’s Office of Minority Affairs.
