George Floyd died in 2020, so the US said, "OMG! Racism is bad! We can change!"

In 2021, the US *talked about* some modest reforms.

In 2022 and 2023, white grievance against those reforms had reached fever pitch.

2024 saw record police funding, record cops killing Black people, and DEI rollback.🤷🏿‍♂️

That whole arc took less than 4 years, and the United States is now more racist than it was in 2019.🤦🏿‍♂️

US racism is incredibly durable and self-healing. The rules of engagement of US society, including who is allowed to criticize what systems, make it so that any meager gains can be clawed back.

In the moments after George Floyd, many people thought that the US had changed for the better, and changed for good.

But a lot of us older Black folk said to ourselves, "👴🏿OK! Now what durable improvements can we put in place before everyone goes back to business as usual?"

We've seen this before.

My point is: Do not mistake temporary revulsion prompted by white people seeing what happened to Renee Good, for widespread opposition to the idea of ethnically cleansing the United States.

That would be a mistake.

You have a limited window to put any durable changes in place.

And prepare yourself emotionally for that pendulum to swing back.

Because if you are not prepared, it will smash you, and break your spirit.

Ironically: a lot of Black people were less emotionally devastated by the anti-civil rights swingback, because we knew it was coming.🤷🏿‍♂️

It's a long game.