Knox College, Canada

A cry for justice, May 2020

From Stuart Macdonald, Acting Principal of Knox College:

You think it can’t happen again. And then it does.

It’s been a horrible week, at the end of a horrible month.

And now another African-American man has died. A police knee on his throat.

“I can’t breathe.”

And we could all see that he couldn’t.

And we saw George Floyd die.

This is a song of anger, and pain, and lament.

It is based on Psalm 83, and was written a few years ago by Wendell Kimbrough.

It was sung a few years ago in Charlottesville, the Sunday after white supremacists marched through that city. It is a song we need to sing at times like this, praying that we may someday not need to sing it.

It is a cry for justice, in the face of injustice.

It is a cry to God.