The past two weeks have been crazy. Who would have believed that our civil rights would be rolled back? Who could have believed that hundreds of migrants would be beaten to death at the Spanish border? Who could have imagined that an unarmed black man would be shot 60 times because he ran away?
July 4th, 2022 seemed to be the coldest day of the year. Between the mass shootings in Illinois and Missouri, and both the militant and non-militant protests - it seemed difficult to want to celebrate.
Instead of celebrating the nation's Independence, I proceeded to write a poem called The Not So Independent, which you can watch in the video below: