At The Burton Blatt Institute we share the nation’s outrage over the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbury, Breonna Taylor and all brutalized people of color. We support Black Lives Matter and protests against racism, and police violence. One of our greatest poets, Walt Whitman, whose 200th anniversary we just celebrated, understood and wrote that the fate of each of us is inextricably linked to the fate of all of us—a notion especially relevant at a time like this. Our country’s unhealed wound remains racism. We are heartened by the actions of so many to protest for we take their energy as a positive sign of the desire to create a better and fully inclusive society and culture. As disability activists and scholars our global mission has been to help insure that the voices of the marginalized are heard and respected; we pledge to continue this mission with energy and strength, to do our part in the healing and rebuilding process. James Baldwin said it well: “We’ve got to be as clear-headed about human beings as possible, because we are still each other’s only hope.”