Happy birthday America! The United States was started 250 years ago today, but it was not finished 250 years ago today. Our story is incomplete.

Our Constitution is based on ideas from the French enlightenment. But we added racism to their ideas, and corrupted it.

We're still fixing that mistake.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109789295728917242

We are the first country to ratify those brilliant ideas into a Constitution, even beating France to their own inevitable democratic success.

But we were not the first Democracy to remove anti-Black racism from their constitution. And we still have not removed that racism and anti-Blackness.