{"id":3203,"date":"2025-04-08T14:19:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T22:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/?page_id=3203"},"modified":"2026-07-02T11:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:28:02","slug":"glj-confronts-racism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/glj-confronts-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"GLJ Confronts Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

2020 was a year unlike any other. Globally, the world entered a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. And in the United States, our country finally confronted the racial violence that it too often explained as \u201chistory\u201d or a thing of the past. From our respective virtual environments, we witnessed the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and too many others. Killed by white suspicion. Killed during a middle-of-the-night police raid. Killed while running. Killed for existing. Killed for being Black.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The summer of 2020 brought pain and sadness, anger and fear, triumph and pride. Pain each time the list of names we vowed to say and keep alive grows longer. Hope during protests with friends, colleagues, and fellow<\/span> Journal<\/span><\/i> members in the streets of DC. Encouragement as peers take to social media to educate themselves and others on this country\u2019s traditions of racism that transcends time. And then despair as history repeats itself, replaying the all-too-familiar cycle of violence, followed by acquittal after acquittal and more violence. History repeats itself, time and time again.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the first Black Editor-in-Chief of <\/span>The Georgetown Law Journal<\/span><\/i>, I could not remain silent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>Journal<\/span><\/i> holds dear both its opportunity and responsibility to use our platform to educate. Through our scholarship, we can educate the legal field generally. Through our community, we can educate our <\/span>Journal <\/span><\/i>and Georgeotwn peers. The beginning of those efforts\u2014and it is only the beginning\u2014is reflected in these pages. Here, we share the foundation of what <\/span>The Georgetown Law Journal <\/span><\/i>will build upon for volumes to come. We have only scratched the surface in our fight to combat racial injustice and systemic inequities as a Law Review and I am proud of what we have managed to accomplish in just over one year and during a global pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n