The Difference Compassion Could Have Made in #2ManyLivesGone2Soon: My Elijah Rock-Shout

("My Elijah Rock-Shout" text art graphic by Aberjhani for Bright Skylark Literary Productions C2020)​Such an overwhelming pattern of lethal violence against African Americans at the hands of police unskilled in nonviolent conflict resolution has emerged over the past decade that I was less stunned by news of what happened to 23-year-old Elijah Jovan McClain in Denver, Colorado, last August 24, than I was by the words attributed to him as he was being detained and slowly robbed of his life. I hav...