Our current national constitutional crisis is due to an unacknowledged, uncorrected and unresolved politically driven, racially exploitative economic system. Systems of racial oppression and an ongoing unprecedented global pandemic place American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) at the epicenter of the resulting trauma like never before. We must acknowledge our past, stop the status quo and transform our state systems, which for too long have oppressed and exploited ADOS and as a result and other Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC).