Eugene Robinson: 'We'll get past this'

Washington Post columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner Eugene Robinson. (Photo: Torrey Schenewerk, GCS Photography Inc)

The world is a grim place these days. Even as Washington Post columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner Eugene Robinson took the stage at the BenefitsPRO Broker Expo in Austin, across the state, 19 children and two teachers were killed in an elementary school shooting. As we watch the news, stories like this, coupled with a war in Ukraine, economic uncertainty and an increasingly hostile political discourse, create a picture of despair.

“It’s hard not to look around and wonder, are we going forward or are we going backward?” Robinson posited to the crowd. “It’s hard for me as a Black American not to feel a combination of optimism at times and at others, feelings of anger and despair.”