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We the people-- black, brown, white. Women, men, and children. Old
and young--gathered together in Chicago, across the country and around the
world last weekend in order to from a more perfect union which is truly representative
of what America is in all of its diversity. We the people, hundreds of
thousands of us stood in solidarity around the world. We came to establish justice for
marginalized people struggling to be recognized as human beings. We came to
challenge a “Just Us” system of mass incarceration that targets Black and brown
and poor. We came to insure domestic tranquility at home
and abroad. We came as citizens, immigrants, and refugees. We came as keepers
of the promise. We came so that our voices are heard loud and clear. Make no
mistake! We came to provide for the common defense of all the people—not some of
people. We came to make America live up to its potential for greatness for we
know that we as a nation, are only as strong as our weakest link. We came to
hold up and lift up the weakest among us. So, we came to secure the blessings
of liberty for those seeking to be free—free from police brutality, free
from racial caste systems, free from poverty, free from religious persecution. We
came to be able to love who love. We came to be who we are and not what others
want us to be. We came to secure make good on the promise of emancipation to
ourselves and our posterity—our children, and grandchildren and the children
not yet born who deserve a better America than we have. We were women demanding
to be recognized as first class citizens. We were men supporting our mothers,
wives, and daughters. We were people of color not wanting to be treated like “other”
than human beings deserving of respect. We the people do ordain and establish this constitution
for the United States of America –all of America, not the divided states
of America. We came to stake our claim of that which belongs to us We the people;
we are America.
