Mr. President, you could make a difference here. What if you stood on the steps of Johns Hopkins Hospital and declared that anyone who needs drug treatment or mental health care in the United States should have it? What if you went back to Fort McHenry, not for a Memorial Day photo op, but to announce a war on systemic racism? What if you simply sat down with Baltimores mayor and its police commissioner and explored ways federal resources could be used to reduce homicide, not with storm troopers but by attacking the underlying social problems, including the failed war on drugs, that feed the body count? What if you walked the streets of West Baltimore and acknowledged that yes, Black lives matter and always have? Americans would surely take notice.

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