Our vote is our power to build a more honest, more just, more perfect Union. Let’s use it.
My dear friend,
It cannot honestly be said that the present state of this Union is, in any sense, “great.” The grave uncertainty, growing inequality, generational injustice, and environmental calamity, caused and compounded by the feckless corruption of those in power — and intensified by the continued spread of this lethal virus — are pulling this fragile Union ever closer to its breaking point. The weight of this dire situation compels me to write you and state plainly that if this Union is ever to be truly great, then it must be, for once, truly just.
This election offers the…
America is a story of struggle between self-evident truths and self-interested lies. Our patriotic duty calls us to this historic struggle to fight for these truths and secure justice for all.
No lie can live forever, Dr. Martin Luther King assured. But for a least 400 years, the lie of White supremacy has. Borne of self-interest and greed, this lie destroyed and dehumanized, raped and colonized, criminalized and terrorized. Religious and biological lies substantiated it. People and cultures internalized it. Laws and institutions sustained it. It is antithetical to the self-evident truth “that all [] are created equal,” yet inseparable from the American story.
To truly eradicate this subversive lie from American legal, political, and cultural institutions we need to honestly reconcile with its progression through history, and identify the policies…
Mateo Romano
Reading, learning, writing, and fighting for a better, more just world.
