The Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III spoke to Boston Public Radio on Monday about the legacy of George Floyd, one year after his murder.
"Now one year later, how do we hold folks accountable who made all of those virtue posturing statements last year about [doing] better?" Price said. "Many of these organizations and companies have not changed one thing, if not, they've gone backwards."
The movement that arose in response to Floyd's death became an inflection point in American history, Monroe noted.
"But we're still seeing Black lives snuffed in the streets of America," she said. "America has learned to value our deaths more than our lives, and that is very problematic."
White supremacy is still embedded in the United States, Monroe noted.
"I'm so troubled by the fact that rather than change and transform supremacy, we'd rather pay the injured party the monetary damages than to change our behavior or laws," she said.
Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist, the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail and a visiting researcher in the Religion and Conflict Transformation Program at Boston University School of Theology. Price is a professor of worship, church and culture, and founding executive director of the Institute for the Study of the Black Christian Experience at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Together they host the All Rev’d Up podcast, produced by GBH.
