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58 Hous. L. Rev. 817 (2020-2021)
The Trauma of Awakening to Racism: Did the Tragic Killing of George Floyd Result in Cultural Trauma for Whites?

handle is hein.journals/hulr58 and id is 849 raw text is: ADDRESS THE TRAUMA OF AWAKENING TO RACISM: DID THE TRAGIC KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD RESULT IN CULTURAL TRAUMA FOR WHITES? Angela Onwuachi-Willig* ABSTRACT The act of witnessing the killing of George Floyd, a forty-six- year-old, African-American father, brother, partner, and son, at the hands of the police caused many white individuals to experience an epiphany about racism, specifically structural racism, in the United States. Following the horrific killing of George Floyd, many white people began to shift their thinking about the existence and prevalence of racialized police brutality, reconsidering the manner in which they had always viewed the world around them. Indeed, many white individuals began to * Dean and Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law. Thank you very much to Provost Jean Morrison for her research support. I give special thanks to my husband, Jacob Willig-Onwuachi, and our children, Elijah, Bethany, and Solomon, for their constant love and support. Thank you to the Houston Law Review for the great honor of giving the Frankel Lecture. Special thanks to the previous board's Editor in Chief, Drew Padley, for the invitation for me to give the Frankel Lecture and this year's Editor in Chief, Reagan Lutter, for her stellar leadership in executing that plan. I extend heartfelt thanks and gratitude to Priyanka Kasnavia for her vision for the symposium, superb planning, and patience. Thank you also to Erin Horan Mendez for her exceptional editing on this Article. Finally, I express my gratitude to Dean Leonard Baynes for his support of the lecture series and the Law Review, and Professor Jessica Roberts for suggesting my name and moderating my lecture. Of course, I express deep, warm, and sincere appreciation to my colleagues and friends, Dean Tamara Lawson of St. Thomas University College of Law and Professor Aya Gruber of the University of Colorado Law School for their brilliant contributions. It was exciting to be on an all-women-of-color Frankel Lecture panel on this topic of policing, trauma, and race; a panel that was also planned by a symposium editor who is a woman of color. 817

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