This past week, the young athlete Simone Biles said in her testimony in front of the lawmakers in D.C., "How much is a little girl's life worth?"

Her words echoed deep in the hearts of many people who were wronged, or marginalized. She was not revealing a hidden secret. She simply put her finger in the open sore in our society – the systematic inequality and different value and reactions or responses that are given to any situation based on who is involved.