The United States is the best place to live. We have more freedoms allowed us than any place in the world; but many of the freedoms we are told we have, we really don't have. Laws are broken by the very people responsible for making them and enforcing them. Our government representatives lie to us, yet expects us to be so committed when it's in their best interests. They want us to lay down our lives when THEY launch a war. My father and grandfather fought in wars; and when they returned to this country, had no jobs because of the color of their skin. My father was wounded for this country, yet received the worst treatment at a VA hospital-which was undersupplied and very poorly staffed. He died in that hospital too.
If the government doesn't care for its soldiers, why should the soldiers and their families care about this country? If I was a white, middle-to-upper class man; then yeah, I would be as patriotic as the next person. I'd be mad as hell about the terrorists! But I'm not any of the above. I feel for those that lost their lives, and for their families; but every time I go home from work, the cops and their profiling remind me that I'm such a small part of america, and not really an american. The rights they tell us we have, we don't have.
When they allow people of color to share in the wealth, treat us equally, grant us opportunity, and respect us as equal citizens; then I'll be a "proud american".
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