By evoking Rodney’s name, Zachari reminded us that in the U.S. revolutionary moments have been cynically cyclical. Emmett Till, Sean Bell, Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown. The brutal events and their aftermaths have become formulaic: (1) a precious24 Black cis-gender25 male life is violently taken by a white policeman or person assuming the same authority; (2) widespread public uproar and outrage; (3) some racial justice organizers try to ride the public wave of attention; (4) strong status quo backlash; (5) cultural amnesia sets in and interest wanes; (6) white supremacy feeds on apathy and gets stronger; and (7) organizers return to work on the calcified racial politics that remain. Our parents held the same aspirations about a shift in racial consciousness after Rodney King’s beating, which—like Eric Garner’s murder—was inhumane, captured on video, and caused widespread anger and protest after state authorities absolved the officers of responsibility