We are going rounds!

This time period in American history is a boxing match with innumerable rounds.

It has been 65 years since the homicide of Emmett Till, and the case is still open. The eddies of history stirred flows of civil rights resistance. Rosa Parks' targeted civil disobedience action becomes one of many launch points for the Montgomery bus boycott that lasted well over a year.

It is nine contentious, and bloody years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed. It is another year before the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

It was a brutal, sloppy, and messy process.

It is the 21st century and different seismic rumbles occur along the way. An example, there's Charlottesville in August 2017 with the homicide of Heather Heyer.

It is 2020. George Floyd galvanizes an evolution of the civil rights chapter of America. We should be better custodians of our history. We are not. We forget. Painful driven spikes of not addressing racial injustice pierce out and through our collective body: Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Jacob Blake.

We have a right to feel tired, bruised up, and exhausted. We have a right to gird up our loins. We are not unbowed. Previous generations did it, across every spectrum. The ancestors, no matter their ethnicity, have shown us the way.

So - get up, lace up, face up, we will be going rounds. That's how we, all of us, learn and evolve in America.