It’s our birthday! It’s our birthday! Our forefathers signed the Declaration of Independence the better part of two and a half centuries ago, touching off a series of events that would make the world a better place. So go forth and celebrate the birthday of our nation by blowing a piece of it up. Enjoy. 🙂
Over two centuries ago, our forefathers created a better and more perfect union. Their new constitution detailed the end of the slave trade in America. Our first great war with our former masters a few years later resulted in American and British warships spending the next fifty years working together to interdict the slave trade on the open seas. Our civil war forced us to pull those patrols home, where they helped end slavery in America altogether. Decades later, we sent our boys out to defeat genocidal regimes in Europe and Asia. And we have spent the decades since defending the world we helped build. The country our forefathers created has helped make the world a better place than it once was. Remember that when we celebrate Independence Day.
Over two centuries ago, our forefathers wrestled with the idea of breaking away from their country. They loved their country. They wanted to make it better. More representative. They had tried to do this for years. For decades. Again and again they sought redresses to their grievances, but their country, their government, refused to address their concerns. It actually leaned on them harder for daring to demand change. And so they came together to consider the one thing they had sought to avoid for so long. A sundering of the ties that bound them to their nation. Their country. Their king. Never forget what drove those men to that choice. Never forget what they did and what they built once they made it. Happy Independence Day.
Ding, dong, another witch is dead. The Supreme Court ruled that free speech is free speech, and that forced speech violates it. As an author, a crafter of words that I sell to people, I have known that some of the laws rolling around these United States could be used against me. That I could be forced to write what the government tells me to, like custom cake makers, or custom website creators. Well the Supreme Court has now ruled that forcing people to create something they don’t agree with is a violation of free speech and the First Amendment. This is an important ruling for people in the creative industries, and it will trickle down to everyone else. We are the canary in the coalmine, and the Supreme Court recognized it. Today is a good day. Ding, dong…
Ding, dong, the witch is dead. The Supreme Court ruled that racism is racism is racism, and that racist policies that limit college graduation rates of our minority populations is a violation of the constitution. Is the fight over? No. I expect racists to keep pushing racist policies like they always have. They will keep pushing to keep minorities where they think they should be, because that is what they always do. That is the fight they have waged for hundreds of years. Every time they lose, they come back with another flavor of racism. Another attempt to revive and reskin their racism to bring it back into vogue. But today we have a Supreme Court ruling to throw at them. Today is a good day. Ding, dong…
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