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Once our words have been spoken, they cannot be erased; only forgiven (paraphrasing my way around #7).

                                               Our words bind things to us:
                        I love you to another
                        I promise to duty
                        Poetry to intimate self.

                                                            

I concede: the system is flawed. We haven’t eradicated bias from America; it took us how long to even recognize we had it?

               But if you invoke racism, discrimination, understand the implications and centuries-long emotion you are invoking. Only speak from absolute certainty.

                                                                                  For the only response to a force that destructive is not anger or hate, but broken heartedness and desire for change.