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Years ago, I walked across the Harvard Bridge a bit after the fireworks were done and the crowds had gone. Trash was littered everywhere. Coming the other way was a work crew of black and Latinx prisoners cleaning it up.
Bit on the nose with your metaphor there, real life.
