George Floyd and the Slow Progress Toward Justice

April 23, 2021

“It is gratifying that justice was served, but it is not full justice. Nothing can restore what was taken,” says Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch. “The most important result of the brutality inflicted on George Floyd is that it encourages a national reckoning and renewed appreciation that there is still so much work to do. Progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability. It must be fought for.”