As we near the 4th of July celebrations in the United States, we must remember how we got where we are.<\/p>\n
Our country was established by the flotsam and jetsam of Western Europe. From paupers’ prisons, from persecuted religious minorities. They came and stole land from the indigenous people who lived here. When these indigenous people protested they killed them, sometimes using genocide.<\/p>\n
They then kidnapped people from Africa and built their wealth upon the backs of slaves. All of the original 13 states were slave states.<\/p>\n
Even today we relegate the remaining indigenous population to poverty. We still have not fulfilled the great principles that this nation was founded upon.<\/p>\n
We today are faced with great economic problems but we continue to protect the rich and force the elderly, the disabled, the children and the poor to suffer.<\/p>\n
I am not so sure that I can be proud of either our past or our present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As we near the 4th of July celebrations in the United States, we must remember how we got where we are. Our country was established by the flotsam and jetsam of Western Europe. From paupers’ prisons, from persecuted religious minorities. They came and stole land from the indigenous people who lived here. When these indigenous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}