In a small but significant way, our nation could heal the long term and recent history of racial injustice and violations of the civil rights of minority populations in our country.  That would be to remove the name J. Edgar Hoover from the building in Washington DC which houses the Federal Bureau of Investigations.  Each and every FBI official employed past and present swore an oath to “defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic”.  It has been made abundantly clear throughout the years from documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and documents that have become declassified over years, have shown that the leadership displayed by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover did the exact opposite of defending the US Constitution and have proven that Director Hoover was a “Domestic Enemy of the Constitution”.  

By removing the J. Edgar Hoover’s name from the FBI HQ building, our nation can acknowledge the wrongs it has done in the past and the present.  We can show all citizens of our great nation that we respect every one of them, no matter their race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, political view, ethnicity, and economic standing.  Healing can start here. 

Here are some documents you could look up that support the above statement:

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/federal-bureau-investigation-fbi

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/26/580677742/the-massive-case-of-collective-amnesia-the-fbi-has-been-political-from-the-start

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/803/federal-bureau-of-investigation

https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/research/online-documents/civil-rights-eisenhower-administration/1956-03-01-hoover-statement.pdf