The Montgomery Riverfront Brawl (August 5, 2023) is an All American story worthy of a full-length essay by James Baldwin.

I am deeply grateful to my fellow ‘Mericans for taking out their phones and recording! It is important to see events for ourselves, without editorials, spins, or downright lies.

Alabama is just one state of fifty. There is no basis, at all, for pretending any state in the Union could not see a similar event within its boundaries.

For once it is obvious that White people can be the instigators of unprovoked violence. Women not much smarter than the men. Is this what we envisioned when we sought to be equal?

I congratulate the fine citizens who stepped up (or swam up!) to help an innocent Black man simpy trying to do his job as co-captain of a boat lawfully entitled to dock as part of normal business operations.

Be an Angel. Not the alternative.