The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate held the second Stone Social Impact Forum last Thursday, with an emphasis on environmental justice.
We must reopen Boston’s economy in a safe way, but whether we are able to do so is dependent on decisions at a personal level — and the best way to get there is not through inviting outsiders to come flocking into the neighborhoods that are already more likely to experience disproportionately severe cases of COVID-19.
The racial biases that were in the system then are still there now. And collecting data on traffic stops might not be of too much assistance — more action will need to be taken.
It has taken me a lot more effort and energy to try and rationalize the past week than it has in any other time of mass hysteria over our country’s social justice failures. And frankly, with time, I...
