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John, today marks
America’s 250th anniversary.
I know the accident of history that allowed me to be born in this country.
I know what my life would have been had I been born in the place where all
of my cousins were born.
[ Abdul ]Abdul as a young kid
I know what America can do for somebody. I just know that too often,
America does not do that for too many of her kids.
As many challenges and as many mistakes as our country has made, there is
one thing that America does better than almost any other country: we have
the capacity to correct.
Sometimes those corrections don't come fast enough. Sometimes they haven't
come yet. But the beautiful thing about America is that we have the
capacity to fight for a better future.
We cannot fix the history of the past 250 years, but I’ll be honest, the
question for us is not about the past 250. The question for us is what do
we want from the next 250?
This exercise in our democracy right now is about that future.
Are we willing to let them continue to rig a system so that the next 250
look like the past 250 — where the rich get what they want, and the rest
do what they can?
Do we want an America where we make war simply because we can, even if we
don't know how we're going to get out of it, and understand that it is
deeply unjust to make war in the first place?
Do we want an America where people continue to have to fight against their
employers who have all the power and all the benefits?
[ Abdul ]Abdul on the picket line with UAW members
Or do we want an America where we are willing to come together beyond our
differences, beyond our divides — reaching together across the divides
they tell us we can't reach, a geography of race, of faith, of ethnicity,
of sexual orientation?
We can have nice things. But we can't do it alone.
The lesson of the last 250 is this: yes, America can correct — if we're
willing to do the work of correcting her. That's what this campaign is
about.
[ Abdul ]Abdul with a large crowd of supporters
That's what we're all here to do. Out of a belief in what we can yet be. A
belief that a child growing up five minutes from here has no less right to
a great education, an incredible future, and the healthcare they deserve
than a child living twenty miles away.
A belief that we can be a force for good in the world if we're willing to
hold ourselves accountable to the international law we helped to build in
the first place.
A belief that when our government works for us, we hold our economy
accountable to creating opportunity for working people — not just for the
folks who already have the money to buy off that government.
We have this opportunity in front of us, if we're willing to grasp it.
Happy 4th of July,
John.
Thanks for sticking with us.
— Abdul
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