It’s Far Too Easy to Lose Sight of the Real Fight

Distraction is the enemy of progress.

Destruction of a statue of 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol, England. (Keir Gravil via Reuters)

This will be short, and pointed.

Destroying statues and other racist symbology does not change history, but honestly communicating about our problematic past (and present) may well change our future.

For the better.