To the Editor:
On May 20, 2020 in Minneapolis, a 46-year-old Black man was crying out for his mother as a white man knelt on his neck for 9½ minutes until he was dead. Then, lying face down in the gutter, George Floyd was handcuffed. George Floyd was a Christian brother of mine. Was he perfect? No way. And neither am I.
As I think back to May 20, it takes me back even further to the greatest voice and leader of the American civil rights movement, my fellow Baptist minister, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
January 14, 2021
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