I've just sent a letter inviting the Dalai Lama to Kansas City to help with interfaith peace and reconciliation dialogue, which is being hand-carried along with others by a Missouri delegation to Dharamsala, India, where he lives. Seems to me that public discussion about body cameras and technology ain't gonna quite do it regarding endemic racism and brutality in our system, conditioned by fear, aggression, and inequality.
We should not be taken in by the intensity of our latest spiritual epiphany while losing sight of the endless journey yet to be unfolded. I diagnose this seeker’s disease as “premature immaculation”, and it does crop up on this shore today: thinking we are there before we actually are. We may actually have gone far; and yet, there is still far to go.