Let America be America again – Langston Hughes
What to the Slave is the 4th of July – Fredrick Douglas
How can someone be anti-abortion and pro death penalty? Can you be pro-life and pro 2nd amendment and say with the same voice that it should be against the law for a woman’s right to choose but not do anything in their power to enact laws that can stop mass murder with weapons of war?
Why are white terrorist and murderers “arrested without incident” on the same weekend that another Black man was murdered by police during a traffic stop? Hypocrisy.
What is the formula for shooting and killing innocent people (Highland Park) and living when stopped by police?
Highland Park, a place where I spent 10 years working exactly one block from the horror on the 4th of July. A corner I’ve stood on a thousand times, at JB Winberie’s which is now Walker Bros. Where me and my coworkers had our names engraved on a plaque for successfully drinking a variety of beers…
I, like the rest of America and the world are saddened by the events of July 4th. In a place I know, it hits different when there is familiarity.
