#SayTheirNames

This is one of the books I'm reading

A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses Of Civil Rights History 

by Jeanne Theoharis

It's going to take me a while to finish it because I give into the temptation to vet Theoharis's subjects and sources, so I can't give you a comprehensive critique. The point I want to make with this post however can't wait, because this is a movie I bought Wednesday and am watching for the third time today. (It's what I do. I dissect the Historical record (and the Historians) so I can discover the dynamics beneath the story of US)

An Invitation

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

I mean sure, rules are rules, and there are few rules we hold higher than those contained in our Constitution. We’ve proven over and over that the Constitution is worth dying for, but how closely do we hold the ideals it protects? Are they worth living for?