Then the ironic fear, guilt, gratitude, and shameful pain that (this time) it wasn’t one of my three sons, knowing full well that one day, it is likely, statistically speaking, to be…But, he was. He is. He always was, and is, one of ours nonetheless, another survivor of the terror. Is some nightmare we continue to wake up to each day. And the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) reckoning of racism as threat to public health, is way overdue.