“Events that echo what we have seen happen to too many people, too many times in too many places, and yet we as people have not yet found the humanity to stop these vile, horrid acts from happening, to truly contend with the racism that permeates our society, and then to root it out,” Pritzker said at his daily news briefing on Wednesday, in East St. Louis. “As a white elected official, I feel a special responsibility to speak out today and to own the obligation that I have to shape public policy in a more equitable direction. Being black in America cannot be a death sentence, but it is. In some ways, it is. And it’s dangerous to pretend otherwise. We must actually do something to change that reality, to make it so men like George Floyd are not killed on a street corner, gasping for air in broad daylight.”
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