Friend,
Today is a day that binds the history of racial justice and climate justice.
Fifteen years ago Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans.
Fifty-seven years ago civil rights activists led the 1963 March on Washington.
And sixty-five years ago, Emmett Till was murdered.
With so many anniversaries, we must ask ourselves, what has changed? This year, the violence against Amaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Jacob Blake echoes Till. And as Louisiana is once again recovering from an “unsurvivable” hurricane, while California burns, it’s clear that the climate crisis is coming for us.
Katrina was the first major climate disaster of this century that unmasked the perpetual pandemic of anti-Black racism and its relation to the climate crisis.
This is bigger than New Orleans. We have had 15 years since Katrina to slow the climate crisis, but we have not. In fact, more of our communities are vulnerable than ever before.
Tonight, after the March on Washington 2020, we will be at the (virtual) Black National Convention, where we’re unveiling a new project highlighting Norfolk and Hampton Roads, Virginia, which has all the ingredients of systemic neglect and environmental vulnerability that New Orleans had. It’s a hard reality, but the next hurricane is only a matter of time.
Join us tomorrow online at 11am CST as we march for those we’ve lost, and dream for all we have coming.
Rev. Yearwood
President & Founder
Hip Hop Caucus
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