We grow up with our hand on our heart, faithfully parroting the words, “with liberty and justice for all.” Yet we live in a world where this “all” fails to include everyone. It carries an unspoken clause: “all the people who can afford it,” “all the people who are born into the right circumstances,” “all the people who talk or look or think it act a certain way.”
Is there liberty and justice for all the people who are racially profiled? Is there liberty and justice for all the people who are stopped and frisked? Is this liberty and justice a human right or is it simply for those deemed to be the right kind of human?
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Words: Jim Kast-Keat
Image: Jim Kast-Keat
Music: Podington Bear
