Election week, I let Langston Hughes have the final word. His poem, “Let America Be America Again,” speaks to the ideal we hold and fail repeatedly to realize, especially when it comes to racial equity in our country. And yet, to the polls we go, with hope again for redemption.
“We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!”
