#gunsoverlives

[settledownbessye]

1938. Langston Hughes wrote this in 1938. And nearly a hundred years later it’s still true. We haven’t done a fucking thing to change it.

The rich and privileged sit contentedly behind the security that their money has bought, and the rest of us die while they offer empty platitudes.

Nothing will change until WE force it. Another hundred years will pass and someone else will be quoting Langston Hughes because we couldn’t get our shit together enough to force change. And in the meantime tens of thousands of young people will die, whether by gun violence or the war machine that controls our government. Rich men start wars, and poor men die in them. Rich men refuse to make laws, and poor men die from their inaction.

It is past time for change. I do not want my grandchildren to be reading these words and seeing the truth of them in their present.