Fireworks, hot dogs, music, and inequality on the Fourth of July

Matthew Teutsch
Age of Awareness
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7 min readJul 4, 2021

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Why you ain’t march on Selma?
Why you ain’t tell the refugees “please stay with me”?
Why when you take communion, it don’t remind you of your union that you too were once undocumented too?
Why do you love your guns more than our sons?
Why you patriots first? Why you worshipping the flag? — Propaganda

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Matthew Teutsch
Age of Awareness

Here, you will find reflections on African American, American, and Southern Literature, American popular culture and politics, and pedagogy.