PGIAA President Harry Grammer – George Floyd Statement
“The death of George Floyd in the wake of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Botham Jean and hundreds of recent others is ghastly reminder that black lives have yet to matter. Two generations have passed since the march on Washington and unfortunately the fight for civil rights is still a fight we have to endure. The problem of police brutality and cold-blooded murder cannot be tolerated any longer. We as a nation must face institutional racism head on in every city, industry, and sector in this country. The idiocy of racism has been a plague on our soil for 400 years, and until we root it out this country will never be the “free” country we claim it to be. Humanity is better than this, we must say this is ENOUGH! We cannot lose any more lives to injustice. It’s time to stand up. We are the ones we have been waiting for.”
