Eric Liu in WaPo on America's broken neck...
The neck is what enables you to move in the world as you. The neck connects head and heart. The neck transmits the electricity from the innermost intentions of your mind to the grasp of your hand, the thrust of your arm, the bend of your knee.
America’s neck was already corroded by cancer. Then one white man broke it.
There is a silent majority in the United States today, but it’s not the kind President Trump means when he echoes President Richard M. Nixon. It is a majority rooted in conscience. We should remember now that silence isn’t always complicity; sometimes it’s just the quiet uncertainty before someone chooses to reject complicity.
On the issue of ending police violence, few platforms are as useful as Campaign Zero, started by activists and academics as a specific, concrete menu of legislative, policy and cultural reforms that anyone can access. On the deeper issue of excising anti-black bias from our institutions, we are reminded today that elections matter — from school board to the presidency. Journalism matters. Organizing matters.