America: Of Pent-Up Anger and the Stigma of a Flighty Truth,

"The flighty purpose never is o'ertook/Unless the deed go with it." - Macbeth from the book "Macbeth" by Shakespeare.

"You Can't Start the Healing Until You Stop the Bleeding" - The Mayor of Minneapolis.

American students are at home. At home since the early days of March, unengaged. The lynching of Mr. George Floyd provides an unanticipated window for them to bolt from seclusion and unleash the suppressed anger against coronavirus and the racial inequality that underlies the disparities in the demographic make-up of the number of deaths. This is more than George Floyd, America. It is a rebellion against Police brutality, systemic racism, and oppression of people of color.

This case is not going to end well any time soon. The earlier the President and community leaders, irrespective of political leaning or religious affiliations, as well as all the Martin Lurther King Jr. and the Billy Grahams of our time, acting in concert with the "silent majority good cops," step forward and unequivocally, demand for PEACE and a STOP to the SHOOTING AND KILLING OF UNARMED BLACK MEN, racism induced anger and protests will know no end in America.

The situation is no longer exclusively a black issue, but also a white issue as explicitly articulated by a caucasian lady a few days ago in a video that is going viral in social media. In other words, black folks cannot solve white racism. They are the victims and not the aggressors. Engendering peaceful co-existence imposes surmountable challenges on the part of the white folks. It is simply a mind thing. Racism or racial prejudice is a mind thing - unlearn it. And racial tolerance is a mind thing - practice it. 

African Americans do not have another country to call their own. And that's the one disturbing reality no one can underplay. Take it or leave it, African Americans are not proceeding on a self-imposed exile to the unknown any time soon. And the possibility of going extinct as a race in America is remotely unthinkable.

And that explains the inevitability of a total ban on the shooting and killing of unarmed black men in America. As the Mayor of Minneapolis Minnesota said a few days ago, "you can't start the healing until you stop the bleeding." And it takes true leadership, empathy, and a showing of contrite and acceptance of a genuine sense of guilt to stop the bleeding.

For the first time, protesters, several times, overpowered security personnel at the front of the White House. To the older generations, your understanding and views about race and race-related issues in America are blatantly incongruous with the views of the younger generations. And these are the guys on the streets. It is no longer protests as usual. Nor a replication of the Black Lives Matter movement. It is about an end to systemic racism, oppression, and state-sponsored inequality.

They know it and you know it. And they won't stop until you confront and overpower the flighty truth. As long as it remains elusive, and until it is discredited and abandoned, its stigma will continue to hunt the best in us and undermine our greatness. Racial tolerance is the first step to ensuring a sense of sustainable peace, not a mindset fixated on slavery and age-old inequality.