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Happy Birthday to my little cutie pie… ❤❤❤

Josh jumping & swimming in the deep end at his swimming pool on July 28 & 29, 2016 with under water perspective. The deepest part of the pool is 4'6". 

We have a lot of backed up footage, on top of new ones & will be releasing them soon like inline & ice hockey, baseball, snowboarding & video games. 

So this accompanies the last picture on the Chicago Race Riots, but I’m pretty sure that my theme makes it impossible to see the caption unless you follow this blog so here we are:

If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursèd lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

Written in response to the Red Summer of 1919 and the Chicago Race Riots, McKay’s poem is proud and issues a call to not back down— to be dying, but to fight back. His sentiment is echoed throughout history. In the movie “Do the Right Thing,” Spike Lee chose to end the film with two quotes, one from MLK Jr urging peaceful protest and the other from Malcolm X, arguing the case for self-defense and standing up for yourselves. This poem is more in line with Malcolm X’s philosophy.

It’s scary that the same poem that was relevant in the early 1920’s was relevant again in the 1960’s and reflected themes in a movie released in 1989 about race relations and police brutality. What’s even more terrifying is its current relevance given the sheer number of unarmed people of color gunned down by police officers in the past few years. And not just police officers, either, really. Hate crimes and racial bias are alive and well in this country and just after the six-month anniversary of Michael Brown’s death, we need to remember to keep fighting and make sure that this country’s system of oppression and racism hears us and can’t forget what has happened and is happening.

From Eugene William to Michael Stewart to Jessie Hernandez to Yusor Abu-Salha and all of the countless lives lost…

From 1919 to 1965 to 1989 to 2014 and all of the years in between…

We’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,