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Even Fewer Get to Celebrate Independence Today
By: Diane DeBella
Date: July 4, 2023
I haven’t written a blog post in a year. While there are many personal reasons for this, the biggest reason is that I have been so disgusted by the horrors taking place in my own country that I haven’t known where to begin. It’s overwhelming. That’s what those in power ...
Who gets to celebrate independence today?
By: Diane DeBella
Date: July 4, 2022
I am not celebrating my country's independence today. The history of the United States horrifies me. The atrocities committed by ‘the greatest nation in the world,’ even before it was a nation, have been denied and ignored for so long that the truth can’t even be spoken aloud. Take, for ...
50 Years
By: Diane DeBella
Date: June 26, 2022
After Friday’s Supreme Court ruling was released, I kept hearing the number 50. 50 years of legal precedent had been undone; a Constitutional right that we had for 50 years had been taken away. Four generations of women in my family spanned those 50 years. Out of all of us—my grandmother, ...