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Earth Day 2021: A Significant Time for Change on Planet Earth by Keisha Robinson

      Happy Earth Day 2021! As we celebrate Earth Day this year, it seems like we have more and more daily discoveries about the Green Planetary System and its inhabitants. With those discoveries, we learn, or should learn from past experiences.     Within the last year we learned about Covid-19 and how the crisis  affected the entire planet. We witnessed Riots and Civil Unrest at the hands of an unfair, unbalanced justice system. Racism seemed to be a pervasive theme not just during the Covid-19 Crisis, but for nearly 500 years.      For Centuries, Americans have witnessed Police using excessive force, abusing their authority under the color of the law, and have been oblivious to how well we coexist and it's impact the planet. Were we so distracted my Tiktok and Netflix that we didn't think Mother Earth would suffer from the ills of Racism? Well, if so, we are sadly mistaken as a society as a whole. Mother Earth hurts every time she experiences pollution, and racism seems to