We Stand With the Black Community and BLM Protesters

Those of you who know us even a little, know who we are and where we stand. However, in this time of long overdue righteous upheaval and positive change — a time when silence makes us complicit, when silence is violence and death — it is not enough to for you to know, or to assume you know who we are.

To do our part, to contribute to support and solidarity, recognition and restitution, justice, peace and equality, we must declare where we stand, who and what we support. We will not declare it quietly, but rather we will declare it loudly, visibly, repeatedly, and continually. So, after a month of protests and outrage since the murder of George Floyd, and to honor all the people of color murdered over the years, we proudly declare where we stand, and who we support on this very special day of celebration: the