If you have been silent about the thousands of deaths in Gaza, Venezuela, Somalia, and Yemen, but suddenly feel compelled to speak out against violence now because a white man got shot, sit down.
Violence may offend your sensibilities, but your silence in the face of systemic killing is not neutrality. It is complicity. It is permission. And it is reprehensible.
I'm not done.
Maybe you do feel just as strongly about every instance of violence. And maybe there is more, much more, discomfort that makes it harder to speak about some deaths than others.
I urge you, do not miss this chance to reflect on that.