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The Diverging Trajectories of Fireworks
"I would like to make you mayor of this small town. So this is how I'm going to do it," she says, before launching into a tirade against fireworks. "Did you know that fireworks are racist? What? Please sign my petition. Fireworks during slave times fireworks were shut off to celebrate slavery." She then suggests an alternative: Everyone goes outside at 10 p.m. on July 4th and claps as the lights go out.
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