What did we learn from the Detroit Uprising/Riots of 50 years ago? And this administration has just authorized a more militarized police department-- what will that lead to come the next Ferguson, and the next Ferguson will come! It came to Dallas with 5 police officers down and how they are still coping with their own next time.

So here... I'm going to do a little cross pollination from across Christian Communities...
BECAUSE of what these columns did within me. The first, said -- what my lips can't because it means speaking truth to power and to family.  https://www.christiancentury.org/article/myth-white-innocence-detroit

And this one 'calls out' the trajectory of this journey from 1967 to now and next month...
https://www.christiancentury.org/article/how-can-we-fell-demons-hatred

Neither one is an easy - feel good read. It is more than 'unsettling' to have somebody  wiggle the plank in my own eye and remind me just how far I, yes I still need to go. Check yourself too my friend.