Quote of the Day

... as we reckon with the crisis unleashed by George Floyd's death, we must reckon with the white comfort that permitted white folk to ignore other deaths like his for centuries.  Perhaps because of him, and Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Elijah McClain, Hadiya Pendleton, (Sandra Bland), and too many others to name, we will finally come to grips with white comfort and finally proclaim three words that are the very heartbeat of our country and culture, slowly, deliberately, and with appropriate emphasis: Black. Lives. Matter.

-- Michael Eric Dyson, Long Time Coming, p. 215