On America’s 250th, the continuing story.

On the eve of America’s 250th birthday I wanted to reflect to think about my position in this nation. As of this week, the Supreme Court of this nation had reaffirmed the intention of the 14th amendment, which had been reiterated without a doubt that:

This statement, which was affirmed over a 100 years ago in United States v Wong Kim Ark, and again this week in Trump v. Barbara in 2026 had made it clear that citizenship regardless of status of your parents does not determine the individual’s standing in America.

Here I am as well, a result of the 14th amendment, a citizen by birthright as my parents were not US Citizens, but permanent residents at the time.

The timing of this decision was ever so coincidental, so close to the America’s birthday. This amendment is one of many that are part of the grand concept that I define as foundational to America.

Though, if you can count, you could see that this is Amendment 14, not Amendment 1, passed almost 100 years after the original constitution was drafted.

Does this mean America itself was foundationally flawed, am I writing this for nothing then?

I think America when it was founded was flawed, but that's fine. America neither was crafted with perfection nor is doomed to a false production. America the nation, is a concept, an ever-changing experiment on the ideas of the fundamental idea of liberty, truth and justice.

America is both a curse onto those who suffer underneath it and a gift and security that is unique to much of the world. Where one could come with nothing in hand and make a name for themselves, be born into a troubled home, disappear into the great mass of our many cities and live their truth, or just be able to post controversial takes online without censorship.

This freedom that we enjoy today could not exist without the blood, sweat and tears of our forefathers who fought, and will not continue to exist without those who believe in preserving these ideas from those believers of post liberal ideals. For whatever reason is also highly popular in the tech world -- They live ultimately in hypocrisy as innovation and progress is the anthesis of reactionary beliefs and with challenge and freedom of expression is the only way to pursue positive growth.

Is America today perfect? No, far from it. We still have a grossly unequal, racist, sexist and homophobic society, but I can still believe that the zeitgeist, even when there is pushback is still moving forward as the majority of Americans can be convinced in our self evident truth that all men were created equal; as long as we try to fight for it.

As we peer into the next 250 years, I believe those who continue to will for the ideas of liberty, truth and justice will continue to push forward our more perfect union just as our predecessors had done: from the voices of abolition and universal rights in the era when some founding fathers were intent on pursuing a union only for their own aggrendizement. To those that had died on Harpers Ferry as the burden of the original sin had gone on too long. To the women who stood at Seneca Falls and Akron, the workers of Lowell Mill, Blair mountain, McKees Rock and many more. The defiance of duty bound soldiers against the Business Plot. The bravery of those at Alcatraz, Gettysburg, the Bulge, Kent State. For those who marched on Washington, for those who fought at Stonewall, Compton’s, and Minneapolis.

America is not something we can take for granted. The grand experiment was flawed, it was built on the labor and lives of those who could not fully enjoy them.

Flawed does not mean doomed and progress can only be get with work. My America is made when those who can and are willing to continue to work so that our successors can enjoy that city on the hill that what was promised to us over 250 years ago.

Happy 250th America.