Foot Soldiers
TW: blood, violent attacks, screams, etc
You can’t define America in one word
Because it is defined by a constant dichotomy:
A dream and a reality
Barbarity and benevolence
Gaudy idealism and a broken promise.
A deep, personal conflict between humanity and hypocrisy
A beast to some and a blessing to others.
Whoever she may be,
Her exceptionalism can only be found in the affirmation of her ideals
Through the struggle to make them real
The claim of liberty
Made by those who were denied it
It was the foot soldiers
The marchers
The freedom fighters
I think of March 7th, 1965
They called it Bloody Sunday
Edmund Pettus, a literal clash of ideals
One that shed blood
Women and children, on the ground