As the Rev. Randy Callender preached on Pentecost, “But it is my responsibility to address the reality of evil, to help you see God’s peace in the midst of chaos. It is my calling to help you fight for air, to fight for breath when the world is causing you to say, ‘I can’t breathe.'”
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The only way to end the violence – and that is the violence perpetrated against Black bodies, not the mere looting of stuff – is a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the actions that we have committed as a country. A full accounting of what we have done. The complete truth of what we have done, no lies, no “Law Enforcement Officer’s Bill of Rights,” no more “law and order” as a justification for evil.
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The Rev. Ramelle McCall, diocesan urban missioner and rector, Holy Trinity, Baltimore talks with Carrie Graves, diocesan canon for communications, about his hopes for the future regarding racial reconciliation in our culture and through The Episcopal Church.
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Perhaps the deeper pain is the fact that this was not an isolated incident. It happened to Breonna Taylor on March 13 in Kentucky. It happened to Ahmaud Arbery on February 23 in Georgia. Racial terror in this form occurred when I was a teenager growing up black in Buffalo, New York. It extends back to the lynching of Emmett Till in 1955 and well before that. It’s not just our present or our history. It is part of the fabric of American life.
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Bishop Sutton and Ford Rowan gathered at the Cathedral of the Incarnation, Baltimore on Pentecost, outside and physically distanced, to dialogue about the psychological ramifications of the legacy of slavery and what we can do.
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