Businesses have begun to reopen, but people are moving into those places with a sense of fear and anxiety.
In the midst of this pandemic we have seen an old enemy, an old foe, an old demon once again raise its ugly head, and inject itself in our lives.
We have witnessed the appalling deaths of so many of our people by individuals who felt they were empowered and entitled to act in the most inhumane ways.
As we staggered from watching the death of Ahmaud Arbery, we then saw the fallen lifeless frame of George Floyd, whose final moments were spent lying handcuffed on the ground with a Minneapolis police officer’s knee in his back and on his neck.
I hope that, in the days ahead, we Americans can all embrace our strengths by reaching out in brotherhood and sisterhood to one another, to honor George Floyd’s memory by working together to repair the America that so tragically failed him.