Thank you sister/daughter/mother/friend for your expressions of the Black experience that America knows well, but refuses to allow it to surface. Whether it is shame of the past or just a refusal to acknowledge that we (Black Humans) are truly human. We breathe, we love, we dream, we create, we bleed red blood, we die, we die, we die and some die too soon at the hands of subhumans who believe they are superior. America’s head and heart are in the sands denial-refusing to look history in the eye and say, “You were wrong and we will no longer allow you to raise your ugly head and destroy us as a nation”. History can not and must not be allowed to repeat itself. Life tries to teach us with each murder of a Black soul, but America seems to learn a different lesson and makes excuses for the dastardly deeds. The lesson IS Black Lives Matter but America spins the lesson to mean All lives matter, and that has always been understood. To truly learn a lesson one sometimes must say it aloud, no matter how distasteful. It must be repeated over and over again until we all “get it”. Violence leads to violence. How did America not know that one day “Dallas” would happen and how does it not know that if the murderous acts of police continue, many more “Dallas’” may happen. Wake up America, wake up the sleeping dogs, don’t them destroy us. Just as innocent Black people die and we mourn them, we mourn the deaths of innocent police officers, but our mourning and our blaming does not solve our problems. Put your thinking cap on America and see the whole picture. If we can send a man to the moon, we can understand what we need to do to heal racial tension and violence. See America in the eyes of the relatives, friends of murdered Blacks and all disenfranchised citizens. Know me for I am America, too.