Flag Day 2022 Tuesday June 14

Indoctrination courtesy pledge of allegiance occurred every morning soon after I arrived at grade school, a little boy namely Matthew Scott Harris remembers obligatory recitation mindful to keep right hand over left breast to experience the beating heart, not knowing re: son nor rhyme, neither giving a fig, but meekly, passively, and submissively heeding parochial ideology, fidelity, civility to an abstract principle to honor symbolic representation of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness and though grateful to live in a country with intimations of democracy, I now recognize absolute zero equality (one hundred percent hypocrisy – admitted hyperbole) prevails concerning, kickstarting, underscoring inalienable rights towards marginalized people: such as those of color (endowed by their creator because their melanocytes produce different amount and kinds of melanin), differently abled people (once again gifted courtesy procreative powers) favored by chance distribution of genetic traits to acquire aptitudes, dispositions, headstrong manifestations, skills, (albeit academic, anarchistic, artistic, atavistic, athletic, autistic...), and those individuals defying gender stereotypes, (which generalizations mainly long foster discrimination.