Dr. Clarence B. Jones, the director of the USF Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice, has penned a statement which addresses the crisis in racial justice following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Dr. Jones served as speechwriter and counsel to Dr. Martin Luther King from 1960 - 1968. In 1963, Dr. Jones assisted Dr. King in drafting his celebrated “I Have a Dream” speech. ———————————————————————— “In my life, I have seen great horrors and great achievements. In the nine decades I have lived, I have never seen a crisis as urgent and grave as the crisis facing our nation today... We have come to a deep and widespread recognition, throughout communities of color and among white people of moral conscience, that we cannot be satisfied with the repeated pattern of racist violence by police officers against our people. We cannot be satisfied by excuses and efforts to diminish the gravity of the systemic racism our community has carried decade after decade throughout the his...