It was a summer day in December. We crowded into St. Augustine Catholic Church to send off Big Chief Donald Harrison.

Inside the church Fr. LeDeaux had said, there is something in us that celebrates life, celebrates through "music and dancing." He said that: music and dancing. A Catholic priest conducting a mass lauds the centrality of “music and dancing"—obviously this priest is a Black man (and I don't mean biologically, I mean culturally).

Need I tell you that this is a Black church?...