Monday, July 05, 2021

Something to Think About . . .



NEXT: David Richo on the Adult Task
of Forming a “Grown-up Patriotism”


Related Off-site Links:
July 4 Glorifies the US Military – a Force With White Supremacy at Its Core – Rory Fanning (TruthOut, July 4, 2014).
Independence Day and the Imperial CEO – Daniel JH Greenwood (Common Dreams, July 5, 2014).
The Untold History of Independence Day – Peter Linebaugh (The Real News, July 3, 2014).
“The Second”: Carol Anderson on the Racist History Behind the Constitutional Right to Bear ArmsDemocracy Now! (July 5, 2021).
It’s Time to Stop Trying to Redeem Patriotism – William Rivers Pitt (TruthOut, July 4, 2021).

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
A Patriotism of Improvement
Ibram X. Kendi: “Patriotism on the Fourth of July is Resistance”
Sweet America
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s “America the Beautiful”
Michael Sean Winters on 2018’s Grim Fourth of July
Queer Native Americans, Colonialism, and the Fourth of July

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