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EDITORIAL BOARD

The Nation’s Racial Problems Shouldn’t
‘Go Without Saying’

I“ t goes without saying” that there are problems to the marches going on right now. And you are
in this country regarding treatment of African also struck by the realization that not enough has
Americans at the hands of police. changed. Black and brown people are still in dan-
No, it does not go without saying. No, it should ger on their own streets. Parents of color have to
not. It needs to be said, and maybe now, just instruct their children, especially their sons, about
maybe, this is the time that it is not only said, but how to act so as to avoid danger at the hands of
thoroughly acknowledged and dealt with. white people. But do those sons have to be told
There have certainly been too many deaths of that they cannot jog through a residential neigh-
black people under circumstances where there borhood? Do they have to understand the security
seem to be no justification for lethal force. This guard in the department store is tracking them,
has to stop, and it has to stop now. But that has suspecting they are only there to steal things? It
been said before. goes without saying this is all wrong.
Some of us lived through the civil rights march- But we would go farther. Why is it, in one of
es of the ‘60s, and some good came from them. the richest countries in the world, that maternal
But if you happen to see footage of those march- health, especially black maternal health, is worse
es now, you are struck by how similar they are than in many Third World countries? Why are

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