Holy, Holy, Holy God,
We call her America for short.
When we speak her whole name, it fills the earth and edges you out. Her name is
United. It is Stately. It is Empire. It is White.

With awe and honor and brutality and genocide and exploitation of Native American
and African and Mexican and Chinese
Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers
Families are exploited here
Families are broken here
Children scream for their broken or removed fathers in their mother tongues here.
Baba! Padre! Papa!!!

And under our feet Latinx families are torn asunder. Children ripped from
mothers’ arms. They sit in cages. On concrete. Thousands cry: “Donde esta,
Mami? “Quiero a mi papi!”

Oh, God! Intervene!  Rip scales from eyes before it is too late, Oh, God! Help them to see. Help us
to see. Help us all to see.

The words of Lisa Sharon Harper.