Lots of people are pointing out that the guilty verdict in the Chauvin trial is not enough, and another cop murdered another Black person, and there's lots of work to be done.
YES!
We are a rum species and we perpetrate horrors upon ourselves. There is always work to be done.
I remain jubilant.
I consider the alternatives:
Trump is president.
There is no vaccine.
Chauvin has just been found not-guilty.
We have untied ourselves from one tangle, and we can use the rope to walk forward.
The illustration is from an Italian cover of On the
Marionette Theater––an essay by 19th cent. German playwright Heinrich von Kleist I'd mentioned a few posts back.
