Citizenship

I spent 30 years defending our Republic; and I now find myself ashamed to be a citizen of our nation.

I have been waiting, since my childhood, for my nation to evolve into a country that lives the values that we preach to the rest of the world – a nation that acts, every day, in accordance with what we say we believe and stand for as a people.  It has been 63 years; and I am done waiting for our nation to evolve past the point where people can be openly murdered in the street for opposing the toxic racist ideology that still poisons our nation – as the most recent symptom of our Original Sin of slavery.

If, in 2016, the citizens of our country were capable of voting for a racist ‘birther’ man like Mr. Trump as our President; then I don't know how I can live in the same place that they do.  Charlottesville, and this Racist President's response after having been openly supported by, and having personally supported, the White Racists in the United States, is just the most recent example of our ongoing, chronic, national disease. 

Charlottesville, and having watched our President’s open and naked contribution to my Republican Party’s final descent and morph into the National White Party, may, finally, be the last straw for me.