From the streets of Minneapolis, where Mr. George Floyd went limp after a police officer knelt on his neck for nine minutes, to outside the White House gates to the hundreds of protestors who besieged cities like

Atlanta, New York, and Los Angeles, America is once again haunted by its shameful history of systemic racism.

The violence it breeds is the crushing trauma to black and white, which makes shooting of black bodies expected, and the rage such unjust killings incite the only response.

Such violence is the poisonous, inevitable fruit of the tree of hatred rooted in centuries of manufactured “whiteness;” a division solely aimed at maintaining power and wealth on the back of black and brown human beings.

I am unapologetically an ecumenist, however I refuse to give a nod to those who are overtly white-preferential, as institutions and always partner with the empire of white wealth and white power, all built on the suffering of black and brown bodies.

White privilege is a disease that has killed far more than any other pandemic, and wounded the souls of so many more, black and white.