I have been writing for a newspaper, a sports journal, or my own blog since 2012. Sadly, after Trump declared his presidency in June of 2015, most of what I offer my readers is not “pretty” or enjoyable because it’s the truth.

However, yesterday CNN reported a story I would like to retell. It’s a positive story; a story about the real America and why it could be a great nation in the future. Younger Americans appear to understand the principles and morals which make America a loved and respected nation; values many older Americans appear to have forgotten.

Nolan Davis is an eight-year-old boy from Kirkwood, Missouri. Here is what he said as he stood before black and white men, women, and children in his hometown.

“I’m worried about Black people, like me, getting hurt. Some skin is like chocolate. Some is like vanilla. Some is mixed together like mine. But we’re all people,” Nolan Davis said through a megaphone at the start of Saturday’s event.

“Even though I’m a kid, it’s important to speak my voice so people can hear me and know they can share their voice too, just like me.”

This is a young man who has been raised well; without learning hatred or prejudice. Unlike many white Americans who wave Nazi flags and chant words hatred and supremacy, he knows that we are all Americans.

The results of his speech were even more heartwarming and inspirational. “We are the children, the mighty mighty children. Here to tell you, Black lives matter!” hundreds of children chanted as they marched down neighborhood sidewalks in Kirkwood with their parents on Saturday.

On January 21, 2017 hundreds of thousand of women and the men who support them marched through the streets of Washington protesting Trump’s illegitimate presidency. On March 24, 2018 hundreds of thousands of marchers once again filled the streets of Washington led by students from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida where 17 students and faculty lost their lives at the hand of a lone gunman with the use of a military assault rifle. On Saturday, a few hundred boys and girls marched in Kirkwood, Missouri, and was equally important to our nation’s future.

This is my America and I hope it’s yours.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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