This Is Our Country, Too

Justin Patton
2 min readJun 11, 2020

Even if it doesn’t, or never seemed so.

Photo by Josh Hild on Unsplash

African Americans have been in this country since the Declaration Of Independence was formed.

We were here when the Constitution was constructed even if we were never apart of it.

America was built from black labor. The free labor from blacks not only built wealth for White Americans, but the profitable slave trade contributed to…

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Justin Patton

Spoken word artist and writer. Living my life and writing about it along the way, it just might inspire somebody. IG: @iamjustinpatton