Fannie Lou Hamer said it plainly. "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired." She said it in 1964, standing before a nation that had beaten her, jailed her, and shot at her simply for trying to vote. She said it because she understood something that too many Americans still refuse to accept: that the suffering of Black and Brown people in this country is not accidental, not incidental, and not the product of individual bad actors. It is structural. It is intentional. And i
What happened to voting rights last week was not an isolated event. It was a continuation of a documented pattern, and the LGBTQ+ community, along with every American who believes in constitutional equality, needs to understand that pattern clearly and urgently, because the next chapter is already being written.
