A Time for Courage

We live in a time when fear is prevalent. Fear of a virus, fear of being called a racist, fear that something written or said years ago will return to destroy, fear of taking a wrong turn in a city and ending up on the receiving end of mob violence. As chaos becomes increasingly the norm, many are wondering how we got here and what we can do to get things back to a semblance of normalcy. You may not like the answers.

We got ourselves here. All of us. We were so consumed with our day to day lives that we didn’t see the poisonous ideologies creeping into our institutions. In the space of 50...