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The fourth of July!

Independence day…

The day that we celebrate as a nation with great pride and a plethora of pyrotechnics…

In memory of the illegal immigrants who, despite the odds…

Declared land stolen from a native population by the British empire

to be theirs instead…

Yes, our founding immigrant fathers and mothers had no right to the land by law…

And, by defying a tyrannical monarch they were by definition illegal trespassers in their own homes…

They should have been deported back to the many, many, many nations they had fled in search of freedom…

But instead, they stood tall.

Spoke half-truths to power.

And declared America to be a nation of free people!

Except for the negro and of course not extending all rights to women…

But to be fair…

these were newcomers to America.

Sometimes immigrants need time to adjust to a new society.

First settlers could barely feed themselves,

and needed the assistance of the native population to survive.

And, the founding immigrants brought with them more than a few cultural hang ups

that needed to be worked out over a few hundred years of assimilation…

It would be a 144 years between 1776 and 1920 when women first got the vote…

Whereas, in most native American cultures women had either

an equal or in some cases the only voice on internal tribe issues…

like choosing the chief!

So as we celebrate this fourth of July let us not forget that this is a nation of immigrants…

And that independence day is a day of declaring yourself free from a foreign nation

And finding a home instead…

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