9 Black artists reflect on the question, 'Is America at a point of reckoning?
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Client: The Washington Post
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I was asked to create this illustration and write a personal essay to accompany my illustration and reflect on the prompt, 'Is America at a point of reckoning?'
I wrote and illustrated this piece in 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic, after George Floyd's murder, which resulted in the uprising of protest against police brutality around the nation and world.
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The full article can be read here.
"Over the past few weeks I’ve cried, donated, shouted in protest, thinking to myself, will we get the change we need in this country once and for all? We see that there are two pandemics killing Black Americans and it took this cataclysmic moment for people to really see what has been happening to us in this country for more than 400 years.
I have guarded optimism about whether this moment will bring the change we need. We continually fight for justice only to get ounces of “reform” brought on by our outrage, and our common-sense demands are continually pushed back as we exist in a system that was built on slavery. If we continue to strategically move in mass and protest, defund the police, and allocate those dollars to education and community organizations, I think we can seize this moment, but I hope those just waking up know that this is going to be a long journey."