 I am often at a loss for words as a black queer man when I witness brutal extra-judicial police killings perpetrated against black and brown people, people that look like me. It too often feels as though this type of violence is becoming normal. The fact is, it is only our visualization of the violence that is new. The violence itself is part of a long, often unspoken arc of American history wherein black and brown people carry the crushing weight of systemic racism. Black Lives Matter is a cry against this prevailing, sinful practice of silencing the oppressed. Jesus didn't said as much when he walked among the oppressed, hearing voices, others, even his disciples would rather not. Perhaps the vocation of the church is to follow Jesus into those oppressed spaces and to amplify silence the voices.