Feelings of “White guilt” in response to what we are experiencing at this moment won’t do any good unless we use them for something bigger; unless we activate them into a movement

Most African Americans are familiar with the colloquial term, “Get your foot off my neck,” but the Minneapolis Police Department recently served up a more graphic and literal version. The officer kneeling on the neck of George Floyd for six minutes is a real-life manifestation of how people who don’t have access to resources and power — disproportionately those of color — are both proverbially and literally stepped on and forced into the submission of an inequitable and inhumane racial caste system.