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Shame Full Travesty Regarding Fourth of July Celebration

Sham(e) full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration American independence day linkedin severance from English crown Continental Congress representatives parlayed courtesy thirteen original colonies yielding Declaration of Independence immediately rendered null and void established vassalage courtesy British rule. Fast forward two hundred and forty six years Indigenous nations, people of color, and so called illegal immigrants still yoked to the whims of White Anglo Saxon Protestant, (albeit patriarchal paradigm) imposing invisible shackles to deny purportedly inalienable rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Before figurative birth of this nation vested gentry men (namely wealthy landowners) unwittingly decreed unknown mockery, when countless generations after Founding Fathers expedited dissolution with English monarchy as inherited freedom(s) affect descendents of former slaves and their harsh task masters. Enlightenment experienced within western civilization in general and United States in particular witnessed manifestation of supposed inherent equality, whereby oppressed peoples forced into human bondage at emotional, physical and spiritual cost being yanked from African brethren. Emancipation Proclamation helped spur realization of vast souls cruelly abused and held chained by Jim Crow laws to claim ownership of sacred promises vouchsafed within the document crafted by Thomas Jefferson. No occasion prevailed to celebrate abilities afforded sons and daughters of those whose privileges denied despite codified words etched for all eternity of those born within contiguous United States plus Alaska natives, whose former self sufficient lifestyle before encroachment of exploiters subsequently severely crimped and crippled which group of people once collectively known and referred to as "Eskimo" rent asunder their webbed wide world. Even at present time when yours truly valiantly tries to encapsulate disheartening abuses exacted upon the heads of those soberly awakened to being subordinated, manhandled, conscripted... into lowest rung on hierarchical free enterprise paradigm simply because self decreed so called white privilege (sofa as I know couched as critical race theory - yet mere writing such loosely suggestive notion could find hounds of hell unleashed upon me scrawny tushy). Contrary ranting, scathing, tearing at the very meat of the matter viz that U.S. social institutions (e.g., the criminal justice system, education system, labor market, housing market, and healthcare system) are laced with racism embedded in laws, regulations, rules, and procedures that lead to differential outcomes by race sorely contested by diametrically opposed polemics to aforementioned taboo idea undermining healthy discussion and allow, enable, and provide a more thorough manumission to be realized, cuz not everybody experiences equality.

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Date: 7/3/2022 12:09:00 PM
Bravo a very important write. So the hypocrisy continues and the 4th is merely a free day meaning less as years of injustices go on and grow on.
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