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 Arms – Democracy 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