Supreme Court Ruling on the Voting Rights Act: A Letter from our CEO

Yesterday's Supreme Court decision undermining the Voting Rights Act got me thinking:

When you build a strong Nugget fort, the pieces on top don’t fall down. 

And just because they don’t fall down for a long time, it doesn’t mean you forget about the bottom pieces being important to holding up the whole thing.

Of course, if you neglect those foundations, or intentionally remove them, it all crumbles. 

This is what is happening to the Voting Rights Act. For years now, the foundational law for voting rights, the landmark protection against disenfranchisement of Black Americans, has had its support pulled out from under it, piece by piece.

A fort without support breaks down. The Voting Rights Act stood strong with its pillars, but it is crumbling before our eyes without them.

We won’t stand for it. 

At Nugget, our work is to Grow Imaginations: to teach kids (and grownups) that building, rebuilding, and fixing up takes effort and creativity. Being destructive is easy, lazy, and many times, mean. Being constructive is hard — yet necessary — work.

As a company, we encourage kids to exercise their bodies and minds with bold, engaged play. That’s on purpose: to help train future generations to embrace the hard work of building, and to not resort to short-term "strategies" like violence and oppression. I like to believe that with practice today, tomorrow’s voters and community members can be more active, creative, resilient, and kind.

We’re here to Play The Long Game — capitalized, because it’s important enough to us that we made it one of our company values. And immediately, we’ll do what we can by speaking up, donating, and voting: building blocks of an equitable future.

Play on,
(and Vote on, and Build on,)
David