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True Independance

While most americans find it their civic pride to show their allegiance during the fourth of July, We have to ask ourselves , Are we truly independant? The Founding fathers escaped British rule basically because of taxation without representation .However they came to the New World and created the same misery from which they were escaping.How many Governors has the State of Illinois incarcerated ? How much political corruption has run ramped throughout the U.S? These are the elected officials we chose to represent us, doing a very poor job I might add.Families struggling to get by, yet are taxes give them cushy pensions to retire to. I felt sorely disappointed today that I observed things kids grow to remember while attending the Evanston Parade there was a young man and Woman walking the parade route handing out lollypops.they gave one to an older caucasian male and a caucasian child, there was a little  boy that was probably of mixed race standing there also and the young lady looked at him and kept going , then a little African-American girl ran up to get one and they  looked right past her as well. Then we wonder why children grow up with certain  issues .They'll probably forget about this by the end of the day, however the issues still remains how they were treated in a Country where we are so supposed to be United ,. The Mayor needs to find out who this Young man and Young lady where hand out the lollipops and ask them not to attend our Celebrations again if we're supposed to be such a Diversified Community.

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