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So I want to thank you for being part of this weekly talk and reflection.

And as many are acutely aware, we're gathered right now and there's in these moments

continual protests in the streets, ignited by the brutal murder of George Floyd on

armed black man by white police man.

And as we know, the protests are about a world more than the tragedy of the particular

killing last week.

They're really about centuries of violence against indigenous black and brown bodies, hearts

and minds.

William Faulkner said, the past is not dead.

It's not even past.

And I think this really applies.

And in particular, anti-black racism is the core wound of the American culture.

And people are protesting now and some violently as we know because the trauma of the suffering

just keeps going.

In one picture I saw a protest, Tampa, Florida, five-year-old signs said, a black boy said,

stop killing us, stop killing us.

Martin Luther King said, a riot is the language of the unheard.

As long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these reoccurrences

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