John, I got so frustrated last weekend when I started getting text messages about a mass shooting in Allen, Texas.

Because when I turned on the TV, all I saw were stories about the royals in England. And even when I went to the newspapers that I follow online, the top headlines were about the coronation.

Joachim Prinz, a rabbi from Newark who spoke at the March on Washington, said in his speech that the most urgent problem is not bigotry and hatred. The most urgent, shameful problem is SILENCE.

SILENCE is the worst thing that we can do right now. We cannot give SILENCE sanctuary to this kind of horror in our community.

We can’t grow numb to it.

We can’t let it be normalized.

Frederick Douglass said it so clearly: POWER concedes nothing without a DEMAND.

And I know there are powerful forces that are fighting against this change. I’ve been dealing with them for years.

But we need more people speaking up and making the DEMAND that we CHANGE.

That is what’s needed now. Not more of the same. But more people who REFUSE to be SILENT.

Cory