The past few months have been a period of intense anxiety and heartache for our country and for the world, as the COVID-19 pandemic and its trail of disruption and loss have touched all of our lives in ways large or small. But over the past few days, our country has once again come face to face with another excruciating pain—the deep-rooted structures of racism that continue to tear at the fabric of America’s society.

The horrific killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis was only the latest manifestation of a devastating human condition that America has lived with since our founding. His unjust death links back across four centuries to a countless sea of lives cut short and dreams diminished. The pain and the grief are overwhelming—and spring not only from acts of brutal violence, but from a host of conditions in our society including the disproportionate health and economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on communities of color.

The hurt, anger, and violence that has erupted over these last few weeks is not new. Fifty-three years ago, a similar uprising of resentment, rage, and exasperation cascaded across America—including in my own hometown of Newark, N.J., where tensions boiled over after an African American cab driver was brutally beaten by white police officers. Then, as now, many of the people crying out—literally dying to be heard—were vilified by those unencumbered by systemic racism for the form of their protest. Much of the unrest that followed through the summer of 1968 was sparked by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, whose words we would do well to remember today: “Peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”

There is no simple solution for the tension we’re witnessing today. In order to ease it, it will be the job of every single one of us to work for racial, social, and economic justice: the only cure.

Our entire team at CR is committed to doing our part by continuing to work and fight for a fair marketplace that reflects the needs and experiences of all people. We are keenly aware that the marketplace is not inherently neutral or just. Not when, still, in 2020, homes in Black and Latino neighborhoods are arbitrarily and systemically undervalued. Not when car insurance may cost a driver of color more for no legitimate reason. Not when Black mothers are two-and-a-half times more likely to die in childbirth. Not when the algorithms that increasingly limit choices and set prices in our society often perpetuate racially disparate outcomes. At CR, our mission has always been to increase accountability and deliver greater safety and fairness to every single family and community—now, that is precisely the work our nation must take on without further delay.