The ants go marching one by one on repeat inside my head as I fitfully sleep, aware that I’m waking up soon to get my child to a teacher he doesn’t like and myself to a job that I’m unsure I like.

We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically.- #shirleychisholm