'I don’t celebrate the 4th of July — I celebrate the people I’m building with, so that we can finally have a seat at our table that we make together.'
American, but I think it is worth noting that however imperfect of a home this country may be, it’s the only one we’ve got. Our people put blood, sweat, and tears into this soil. Recognizing that it’s a burial ground of our hardships doesn’t make us any less worthy to do our rain dance here, in hopes that we may one day wash the stains of the star-strangled banner.
I don’t love America; I love people and places in America. How could I truly love an entity that views me as subhuman, that wrote in its constitution for me to be considered three-fifths of a person? I’m not Jesus; I won’t turn the other cheek to the racists that still burn crosses and bomb churches, nor the ones that preach diversity then throw away the key on a rigged third strike.
But I love Chicago summers on Lake Michigan, Philly cheesesteaks on South Street, falling in love in Brooklyn, street fairs in Asheville, North Carolina. I love putting in work for the city that raised me withI don’t celebrate the 4th of July — I celebrate the people I’m building with, so that we can finally have a seat at our table that we make together.
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