I’m a political independent. But I don’t want to lose my health care. I don’t want the planet to suffer more than it already has because of global warming. I don’t want to see more victims of police brutality, because I can put myself in the shoes of those whose lives are put at risk. And I don’t want armed militias roaming the streets when I go out for dinner and a movie.
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In three short months, some white Americans have grown so impatient to “get back to their normal lives” that they’re willing to sweep the image of a man being brutally suffocated under the rug. How long, it must be asked, have Black Americans been waiting to get back to a normal life?
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The ideals in the Declaration of Independence were, and are, worth aspiring to. These rights were worth preserving. But if we neglect to strive for them, they lose their power. Throughout our history, we’ve often ignored them — through slavery, voter suppression, misogyny, “manifest destiny,” and in many other ways. Now, though, we’re doing something worse: we’re abandoning them.
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