American Hate- Who’s Keeping Count?

  When little Johnny walked up to the classroom blackboard to work out an arithmetic problem, he had no idea the firestorm his chalk scribblings would create. At the first sight of the threatening numerical combination of 8647 written out

American Hate- Who’s Keeping Count?

I’ve lost count. Of all the mass shootings. Of murdered children, LGBTQ, African Americans, and Jews. I’ve lost count of all the violence. The vicious name-calling. Defacing of property. I’ve lost count of all the hate crimes in our country.