We have a crisis, and it’s not just race and violence. We have a crisis. But it is much older than the events of the past week in Charlotte. It’s much older than the violence that has been taking place in our cities in the past few years. We have a crisis and we have had it for a long, long time. We have lost our ability to see. We are blinded as a society.
The other day my nephew, who is also my godson, sent me via social media a photograph of his firstborn daughter, Hannah Sophia, all 8 lbs. 5 oz. of her. It is one of the more beautiful photographs I have seen in quite a while.