2. Don’t Lay in the Cut
Staying out of the fray, on the down low. It may keep you safe, many consider it a survival instinct allowing one to live another day. But it may not always help you or the community at large. One of the many beauties of Luke Cage is it invocation of history. Prime example, its reference to Crispus Attucks. Attucks is often cited as the first man to die in the entire American Revolution. One of five men who died in the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770. In the second episode Luke Cage explains to a young mugger that Attucks “Could have acted scared when the Brits raised their guns, but he stepped up. He paid for his life, but he started something.” The lesson, to make a difference you have to step up and in to the light and not lay in the cut.
