Finding the Right Question to Ask

Living in the upheaval of today means finding the right question to ask that will bring us to a different outcome.  We, as a nation, have been in this time and place before.  As we look back, we reflect on when and where are the times and places that each of us has turned away and became complicit in the mistreatment and death of others?  Did we refuse to look or was it just more comfortable not seeing?  That can no longer be.  Now, we again come face to face with the rage and protest of racism followed by White America's admission that there is an advantage to being born white.  This time, let the next step be different.  Words feel inadequate.  What new is there to say?  We enter in with a sense of helplessness in uttering once again the words "Black Lives Matter."  Of course they matter; they are essential, and of deep value to us as a people.  And so we come with silence.  We set our minds on bold visioning and this time are determined to discover who we are going to be together.  How do we become the us that has not yet been and finally give birth to a united America?  In the words of Langston Hughes: "Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed-"  It is time for the hard work to begin.