#BlackLivesMatter

Like Killer Mike, we don't want to be here -- but we are. And we embrace it.

We are shocked. Not by the destruction of property that has accompanied the urban uprisings in dozens of cities across the United States, although it is shocking. Not by police attacks on nonviolent protesters, because sadly, we had seen that before (a police horse almost trampled one of us at an anti-war protest in 2002, so we are fully aware of what t…