Probability and Providence
As a black attorney with a history degree, I can think of all kinds of reasons not to celebrate today. I’ve spent much of my life studying the sins of this country, and all of it as a descendant of those whose persecution produced America’s social and economic foundations, who fought with Washington but weren’t given full citizenship (on paper) until 1964, and as a member of a group whose rights are repeatedly violated by the state without consequence. But…