Published:
May 31, 2020
"Really talking about longstanding problems of racial injustice in the United States, and Austin is not immune to these problems," said LBJ's Peniel Joseph. "I think, amidst this tragedy – and we've seen it with the pandemic and racial disparities — we really have a generational opportunity to try to transform these inequities in the criminal justice system, but also think about racial segregation in public school, in housing, in government, in every single aspect of our lives.
"These calls are really calls for democratic transformation, and I think that when we focus on violence, it really overwhelms our understanding of the structural violence that gripped these communities."