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# Balance of Shadow and Light We must still confront the abuses we see—in executive orders, in detention centers like Alligator Alcatraz, in the stories that rightly horrify us. But alongside those realities, there is also light. What I saw today reminds me that our task is not to destroy, but to reveal. Not to blow up a system, but to call it back to its promise. To make real the idea of America as the land of the free.
# Ground-Level Witness The big stories—the cruelty, the headlines—are real. I’ve seen them. But today was a reminder that what happens at ground level isn’t always so simple. There is compassion in the cracks, and sometimes even inside the walls. Our work is to hold both truths: to resist abuse fiercely, and to protect the spaces where dignity is still alive.
# Personalized Witness Frame I’ve stood at the gates of places like Alligator Alcatraz, where human beings are warehoused and discarded. And today I stood inside a Chicago office where human beings were embraced and celebrated as new citizens. Both are America. Both are real. The question is which one we will feed with our attention, our policy, and our courage.