The ongoing Black Lives Matter movement has succeeded on 2 accounts. It has already resulted in police reform and has kickstarted the conversation about police discrimination and brutality. It also has succeeded in getting educated white people to question their privilege and consider the experience of people of color. These two early victories are commendable.

What’s next? What about the uneducated white people who refuse to enter the conversation? What about the actual black experience, beyond their encounters with police? Quality of life for people of color, voter suppression... these are interrelated yet separate issues, and the waters are already getting muddied as we try to have a conversation about all of them simultaneously.

We should certainly celebrate the early victories that have been accomplished, but it’s also hopefully obvious about how much further there is to go. Here’s to the Black Lives Matter maintaining steam and transforming into a much broader movement about the greater issues plaguing our society. The fight won’t be easy, but it’s definitely just, and it will be worth it.