Terminal Stasis

While it's hard to be excited about July 4th this year, I will attempt to remain hopeful for the future of our nation — a hope that is bound to those taking to the streets to demand change, as well as to a handful of upstarts in local politics doing their best to restore democracy within in a blood-soaked system that puts capital above people. The brilliant James Baldwin said it better than I ever could, “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”