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The Follow-Up to Articles That Appeared in BAVUAL's Summer 2022 Issue

"MY TAKE": COMING TO AMERICA, OR WHY I AM STRONGLY PRO-IMMIGRANT

The status of immigrants coming to the United States has only gotten worse, particularly along the southern border. Haitians join Ecuadorians and other Latin and South Americans seeking asylum in being turned away at the border. Though the "border crisis" much hyped by the right wing never materialized, it has not prevented the governors of Texas and Florida lusting for higher office to use immigrants as a political football, shipping them (possibly illegally) all over the country, but mainly to East and West Coast cities to humiliate Democrats.

"THE DRIFT": TIME TO REPEAL THE SECOND AMENDMENT

More than ever, BAVUAL continues to advocate for gun control and repeal of the Second Amendment. Ordinary Americans do not have a right to a firearm; such a weapon is reserved for "a well-regulated militia." We are not against owning a gun for sport or self-defense, but it should definitely be more difficult to get one.

TRUE GRIT: CHRISTIAN SMALLS

Smalls, the ex-Amazon warehouse worker turned union president, seems to have rekindled the movement for workers' rights in the U.S. that has spread to other industries, from Starbucks to UPS to SAG-AFTRA. If the country is ever successful at reducing the massive economic gulf between capital and labor, it will largely be because of this young black man.

THE TIMES: BRITTNEY GRINER

Despite grumbling from the usual right-wing quarters that a lesbian black woman should not be bargained for release from a Russian prison before a white man (Paul Whelan) still held, it was nevertheless a wrong that was righted - and called by BAVUAL before it happened.

The Summer Issue, graced by a painting of a one-armed black veteran, was our second-most popular to date. It was a tribute to Black American Patriots, from the Revolutionary War to Iraq and Afghanistan.