4th of July — Not Quite the Same as it Used to Be for So Many of Us
8 min readJul 17, 2020
When I first became a U. S. citizen, I was so proud of this land. Yet as the years have gone by, I’ve discovered that citizenship classes only taught what “they” wanted me to know, and probably still do. The real history of this nation is quite messy. It has been multi-dimensional, hypocritical, and frequently cruel. It is still unkind, disrespectful of Constitutional…
