Pol Rosenthal is an artist who usually works in theater, performance, and protest contexts. Courtesy of Pol Rosenthal

For today's message, we turn to the performance artist Pol Rosenthal. He says in his message that all of this protesting in the air these days originates in "people asking for the cops to treat them the same way they treat white people — rich white people. If you don’t get that, then shove off until you do."

He also says, "White folks newly awakened: while your urgency is appreciated, please remember, some of us have been working on this for decades." He also says, "You’ll know when we lose all patience. There will be no cake for any of you ever again."

And he proceeds to eat a whole bunch of cake.

Betsey Brock is the executive director of On the Boards. Courtesy of Betsey Brock

Today we turn to someone who's a total connector in the world of culture, Betsey Brock. She knows art people (she helped lead the Henry for almost a decade), film people (worked at Reel Girls, served on the board of Northwest Film Forum), dance people (advisory board member of Velocity), performance art people (she's now the executive director of On the Boards)—the list goes on.

"I've been thinking a lot about my position as a leader of an arts organization in this city," she says, "and I've been phone-banking, and donating money, and marching, and contacting my elected officials, and really connecting with with my community in a different way—but that doesn't change the fact that I'm doing it from a position of privilege, as a white woman, a product of white-supremacy culture, in an organization and a field that is inherently part of a systematic history of exclusion."

She has more to say along those lines. But first, here is some beautiful footage of Lake Washington.