‘July 4, 2020, will be commemorated this year against the backdrop of America's Third Reconstruction, our latest effort to make Independence Day meaningful as a celebration of a republic no longer in the grips of anti-Black racism and white supremacy…’

This feels more like an exercise to make white people feel less guilty about doing nothing, and two black music executives giving them a pass not to. Once more permitting them to play the Hollywood cliché of white savior.

We went from quarantine to chaos in a blink of an eye. Shelter-in-place for safety from one virus, only to take to the streets in protest for lack of safety from another – both with no cure.