We’re sharing a poem Haylee wrote in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. It is part of a vast array of work by truth-tellers and anti-racist organizers that disrupts the idea of america’s 250th birthday, reminding us that the colonial project that became american empire started long before 1776, was intentionally constructed as a myth, and can be (is being) undone. If we continue to organize, in a principled way, together.