American Revolution

Submitted by ub on Tue, 07/07/2020 - 12:26

This is the American Republic. We're living in the land of the free and home of the brave. The bastion of liberty. In God We Trust. We have to learn t live together.

The phrase all men are created equal has to be one of the best known in the world. Indeed, it’s used so often that it has become a cliché. The phrase is from Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence written in 1776. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

It also occurs in Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address 1863. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address

It’s a lovely phrase and I can understand why we like to use it. Woman's Rights Convention, July 1848, Seneca Falls, NY. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal ... The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.

‪Though Trump has long aired racially divisive language and grievances in the public sphere, his willingness to do so from behind the presidential seal and on his Twitter account — has reached a breakneck pace as the nation grapples with racial injustice.  https://apnews.com/10f096038019ee7a0d798c6d51ecd3b4

Americans are aiming their anger at each other, talking past each other, invoking race, class, and culture. They can't even agree on wearing masks to protect against a virus that has killed more than 130,000 Americans. Can the U.S. pull itself together? AMERICA DISRUPTED: Troubles cleave a nation and a city https://apnews.com/1ff1254f0017af3aa02f0311bb2c67ec?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP

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