I started this morning to reflect on Independence Day. The first speech I spent time with was Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. While he speaks directly of "a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal," he doesn't mention slavery. But the war was fought over whether one person can own another person or whether they are equal in the eyes of God. Lincoln says, "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure." We endure, but there are still people who think that there is not room in our country for people who are not white.
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