We can't talk about the protests in Minneapolis or Kenosha or in locker rooms nationwide without looking at ourselves. We maintain a system that grinds millions into desperate poverty. A system that doesn't provide the most basic necessities, like food, shelter, and medicine.

Whether the people are brutalized by police, by austerity economics, or by politicians who simply do not care about us, our nation is crying out, desperately, for change.

We need to fundamentally change the way our society treats the most vulnerable, make amends for our failed systems and construct a more just society.

Because this has gone on long enough.