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Repost from @ddlovato • #BlackLivesMatter 🖤 Repost from @intoactionus “As we mourn the deaths 130,000 Americans, as we demand those charged with protecting us stop killing us, as we expose the long held truth that racism, misogyny and xenophobia are foundational to our systems, as our President stokes fear and division while standing upon land stolen from our indigenous nations... “As fireworks mix with tear gas”... how are we to celebrate the 4th of July? • The 4th of July is complicated, our democracy imperfect and our promise of independence yet unfulfilled for so many. The bounty of this land stolen by the wealthy and the privilege of living in this beautiful country overshadowed by the neglect and greed that leaves the lives of so many too difficult to see any reason to celebrate. • Our commitment is to each other and to the promise of becoming the nation they profess we are. A nation that respects its treaties, that honors its commitments, that understand its bounty is to be shared by all its residence who work tirelessly to make it what it is, to be a safe harbor for those in need and a place where opportunity, safety and freedom of fear is shared equally. • So today, like every day we say #blacklivesmatter and #freethemall and #fightfor15 and #honorthetreaties and #defundthepolice and #abolishice and #schoolsnotprisons and #metoo and and and and and tomorrow we will get up and say them again. • 🇺🇸 ... this is America. #4thofjuly 🎨 by @jefcaine” https://www.instagram.com/p/CCPsZ5UD5Vm/?igshid=16hvjeak0nisp

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