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As always, the Sikh Coalition urges you to practice your faith fearlessly.

The Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion mourns the brutal and merciless murders of Ahmaud Arbrey, Breonna Taylor, and the most recent of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.

While the tragic killing connects us to all the Black people who have been murdered since this country was founded, including Eric Garner, Philando Castillo, Shatina Grady, Aiyana Jones, Michael Brown, and Travon Martin, it has happened so often across America that it leaves our stomachs turning in knots removing the myth that we are living in a post-racial society. We are haunted by this ugly reality — We will not accept this ugly reality; wearound the sphere, those crowns that give it its name, is pretty, almost beautiful. It is hard to think of that lovely image as the death star that is wreaking keening and grief throughout the world as those of us privileged enough, isolate ourselves at home.

Metropolitan Detroit has not been spared. Communities of Faith have not been spared. And it is a plague of biblical proportions for the African American community.

All faith groups share some version of the requirement to care for the stranger and love our neighbor. In the Christian scriptures, Jesus PBUH is asked who is my neighbor and he tells the story of the man who is robbed and beaten and left for dead on the Jericho Road. It is the story of the good