George Floyd affected us all 🇺🇸
Today working on pruning my design profile on Dribbble.com I had to delete the link to this post and it reminded me why I made it — and how much we still have to go as a country to fix things like this from ever happening again
So I am reposting it to my Medium in the hopes that you read it, you reflect on it, put yourself in the shoes of someone going through the pandemic in 2020 and perhaps take away something that spurs you to action 🖤
The Instagram post where this was originally posted is HERE 📸
Another day of violence and looting in the United States
One nation indivisible is divided again again and again. The greatest country of laws, and not of men, continues to struggle under the weight of its vision to achieve the dream of huddled masses yearning to be free!
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We have the worlds oldest constitutional republic, if we can keep it. And keep it we have thus far — through a revolution against a world superpower, the largest civil war of any union, the great war against the eugenics of fascism and the cold war against enslavement by communism. We as Americans choose to do so not because it is easy but so that the government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
When we declared all citizens to be equal in 1776, very few were. Yet since our inception we have continued to expand the right to vote and be equal under the law to all American people. And it is this quality of perseverance and continual progress in our laws, against all odds, in the face of extreme challenges, and set backs that makes us the greatest country on earth.
As a naturalized immigrant it is clear as day and night that the inequality between white and black Americans has been demonstratibly getting worse. I took my oath of citizenship when Obama was elected because I saw hope for this country to turn things around. I am proud to live in a country of immigrants which recognizes that our differences give us strength, and our diversity blesses us with immense prosperity. In this country, unlike many other countries, it is possible to change anything with the liberty of your voice and the sovereignty of your vote.
At a time when only 50% of Americans vote, and 20% are not even registered, many are calling for violence against ‘the system’. To them I say, lets resolve that those who have died for our freedoms and our country shall not have died in vain. Let us use our 1st Amendment rights to SPEAK with one voice and our 15th, 19th and 26th Amendment rights to VOTE with one vision — so that this land is made fit for you and me, regardless of the color of our skin.
REGISTER TO VOTE.GOV AGAINST RACIST REPUBLICANS AT ALL LEVELS!
