"It Would Be Shameful to Give Up That Fight"
On the 249th anniversary of the founding of America, there is a certain pall over the celebrations, since there is real doubt whether we will reach our 250th year as a nation without an absolute monarch.
I was going to write something about this, but I found that my thoughts were anticipated and answered by this terrific post from Ken “Popehat” White, so I’ll refer you to him, instead.
This is a piece he has posted regularly on the 4th of July, telling the story of a long-delayed naturalization ceremony for Filipino-Americans who were promised citizenship and denied it by Congress for many years. This year, for obvious reasons, he posts it with a preface about how the story hits differently as our current leaders attempt to transform America into a xenophobic police state.
I was particularly struck by this passage in the preface.
But the story also reminds me I am not entitled to wallow. I am fortunate. I have autonomy, power, a voice. America’s history is the story of people—like those Filipino-Americans—who had much less and faced far more daunting circumstances and kept fighting. It would be shameful to give up that fight.
Read the whole thing, and never give up the fight.
The Popehat piece was very moving. I am reminded of our betrayal to the Afghani translators and other Afghani refugees.
It dishonors America, like our treatment of the Filipino fighters.
I hope it gets rectified in less time than it took to provide justice to the Filipinos.
Good day after the 4th of July the in the year of our Lord 2025,
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