If we are to dismantle the crisis of systemic racism, we must address the white supremacy that is ingrained within all of our systems. White supremacy stops us from taking responsibility for the system white folks have created. It stops us from recognizing the source of discrimination’s signs, like the disparities in generational wealth, wages, employment, land and home ownership. Like the health disparities Covid revealed.  Like the police stop and incarceration disparities. It stops us from taking the bold actions to repair the harm. It hurts all exploited, oppressed, and discriminated people.

We need a system that builds equitable community wealth, that transforms our housing system. One that opens real access to home and land ownership, the greatest source of family wealth people have and, therefore, the possibility of building generational wealth and avoiding generational poverty. One with protections.

We need a system that builds equitable community wealth, that transforms an education system that has largely failed students of color, who experience exclusionary discipline which create pathways to juvenile detention centers, a school-to-prison pipeline. 

Worse health outcomes have been exemplified through COVID, where BIPOC have been more likely to contract and die from the virus throughout the pandemic due to barriers in healthcare access and increased exposure through low-income essential work. In order to disrupt this, we must take a data-driven approach that produces material anti-racist outcomes. 

We must continue to expand upon and support the work of the Department of Racial Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (REIB), explore the rehabilitative opportunity of reparations, and create a city budget that reallocates funds into BIPOC communities who have historically been marginalized.