A Letter to America

Dear America,

I miss you.

I miss how the Fourth of July used to feel when I was a kid…sparklers in hand, fireworks in the sky.

Celebrating a freedom that actually felt real.

I wish we could go back to being a country I was proud to live in.

A country where ALL of us are free.

Because it’s hard to feel safe in a place that isn’t protecting you. And it’s hard to be proud to live somewhere with a government that is actively targeting the very people it’s supposed to protect.

We deserve to live in an America where “liberty and justice” isn’t selective. What happened to being the “Land of the Free?”

Let’s make America something we’re not ashamed to celebrate again.