Memo from the Department of Homeland Insecurity: Can We Quit the Blame Game and Talk about Healing?

In this latest wave of post-trauma handwringing, heartrending, and soul-searching, we have seen many efforts to direct attention to the root causes of epidemic violence in America, its relationship to white supremacy, white privilege, institutional racism and other related phenomena (black-on-black violence being one salient and contested issue, along with predatory capitalism and Jim Crow/Joe-the-Plumber”-democracy among others ).