Independence Day 2016
In America, this time of year, we celebrate our freedom. We beach, we barbecue, and picnic. We head to ball games. We gaze at sunsets and at awesome firework displays. In recent years, we also view grainy videos of Black Americans being murdered by those sworn to protect and serve before immediately (reflexively) describing all the ways the victim could have, should have, avoided this end. We've agreed that selling both "loosies," and CDs, playing with a toy gun in a public park or at a public Wal Mart , reaching for a wallet, driving with a broken tail light, refusing to extinguish a cigarette in one's own car, and simply walking on a sidewalk while Black... we've agreed that these are all prohibited activities punishable by death. This is America. This is the freedom we celebrate. And This will never, ever change until we (White people) demand it so. Or at the very least, find it in ourselves to care. If we all actually started