Aug 20, 2020
On April 26, 1607, three ships carrying 105 men and boys landed on the eastern shore of what would come to be called America. The rugged spot jutting out from America’s mainland that birthed this nation has since been named Virginia Beach.
The activists who tossed chests of tea into the ocean to protest economic injustice were patriots. But they were also oppressors, unwilling to extend the freedoms for which they fought to everyone. America’s wealth was built on the slave labor of Black people: this is our past. To live up to America’s ideals, we must trust in a Black vision of the future.
