We certainly can’t say that American’s racial unrest is going quietly into the night – or going quietly anywhere.
Frankly, that’s a good thing. As individuals, or a city, or a county, or a state and certainly a nation, we must talk about race in America. To do that, we need to be leaders, not trollers. Reformers, not jailers.
But rather than conversation, it seems we have fires – literal and figurative – all around us. And there can be no doubt that some are sparked by the lit matches Donald Trump keeps throwing on the gasoline his rhetoric and dog whistles spread.
Then he feigns innocence: “And I say very modestly that I have done more for the African-American community than any president since Abraham Lincoln, our first Republican president.”
Of course he hasn’t. Nor will he. That’s why so many of us – of every color – have taken to the streets in peaceful and sometimes not-so-peaceful protests this year.