The video below… potent and portentous. Excerpted transcription of note, at 41:46, and Truly Inspirational preaching by Rev. Deborah Johnson at 46:44

“This America that we are focused on, trying to struggle with, work with, was never designed for most of us… this America was never designed for us to thrive, for us to be true contributors… and that means if, fundamentally, if you are not in a white, male, heterosexual, and probably WASP (Anglo-Saxon Protestant) body — so if you were a white female, if you were brown, if you were yellow, if you were indigenous, any of those things — this [country] was not made for you… and those of us that have some bit of thriving within it is at the will of of our Spirit and us tapping into that which is deeper, and choosing to have our deep knowing be expressed in the face of, and in confrontation with, the momentum of what America is. So we actually have to vision this unseen, as yet expressed, new America that actually involves all of us in terms of dreaming it up…

“We love to go back to the idea of the founding fathers, and it’s an abusive relationship!

“Cut it out.

“It’s an abusive relationship.

“Grow up and recognize that the founding fathers do not have your best interests in mind. That is true for most of us and it is time for us to actually leave that aside and say, ‘You know what daddy? I know you thought you were doing the best you could, but this is not working for me and I’m out. And I’m about to go and build my own house and I’m gonna’ build this house, this new America, this new place, this new land, this new vision — not this old dream that is my perpetual nightmare.’

“And it is traumatizing to keep asking people that have been marginalized and have been oppressed by these systems to figure it out, to work in it — that something is wrong with you — and we’re not acknowledging that. And that’s not, just not, working for people of color and women and brown people, that is not working for white men — hence Las Vegas, hence these shootings — it is not working for them anymore and we’re in the place in which we are manifesting what is true — the way it is not working — it is disconnecting, it is isolating, it is keeping people from being able to love each other in the way that is the natural order to them, and we have to have our narrative catch up with our reality and stop holding on to the old, abusive relationship of the founding fathers and the ideas that they had while they were raping, pillaging, committing genocide and had their slaves bringing them something while they were writing ‘we are all free’.

“Cut it out. Cut it out. Let that go. Mourn. Let’s bring the midwives to usher it into it’s death and let it be. And I truly believe that as those artists, as those medicine people begin to invoke the possibility of something that includes us all, including the people that believe this thing is working for them, that believe this thing is meant for them and are in fear because the signs of the times suggest that they’re going to lose it — if enough of us keep talking about it and inflecting back to them ‘this is actually not working for you — you are isolated, you feel alone, you feel separated, you carry this burden of thinking you need to know everything and control everything — let it go.

“Come with us to build a new America — to dream a new America’.”

~Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams, Center for Transformative Change