A Love Letter to America

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Indian Voices Writers Collective
February 21, 2024

A Love Letter to America

Democracy in America is worth saving. Even with a legacy that includes slavery and genocide and other harms to people of color and others­­, America is still a wonderful idea, place, reality…

We reject the idea that America is so broken and racist that all must be torn down and replaced with who knows what. The Six Nation Iroquois Confederation and the Great Law of Peace were integral to forming the U.S. Constitution. Consensus building and compromise were important to them, and it must be important to us. Great things happen when the three branches of government work properly and keep each other in check. Let’s not tear it all down. Let’s add to it, improve it, make it work.

Our civic duty is to embrace and encourage mainstream and legacy journalist to fortify their backbone and wean them away from the corporate controlled media and help us tell the story of the people.

No single perspective, school of thought, or philosophy can or should dominate, even if it offers many strong ideas. There must be room for other ways of seeing the world … that is, unless you favor totalitarianism. We reject totalitarianism from the Right, as well as from the Left. No one people have an exclusive on being wrong; no one people have an exclusive on being right. People of every nation, tribe and party get things wrong and right. We refuse to vilify or deify any population. We believe that any hate we send out toward any people will inevitably find its way back to our communities.

Indian Voices is a multi-cultural media organization within a multi-cultural nation.

There are so many reasons to love America. In short, the United States of America, warts and all, is worth saving.  

Is this true for you and your people? If so, why so? We asked our readers and writers to tell us why America is worth saving. In the pages of this special election issue, we invite you to take a look inside the hearts and minds of a diverse group of people who think Democracy in America is worth saving.

To America’s great and many peoples, we encourage you not to lose hope. We can and will rise to this incredibly momentous occasion.

The great American experiment is a work in progress guided by the prophesy of Crazy Horse.

America, this special networking edition of Indian Voices is our love letter to You.

Feedback please.

Photo: We The People on the National Constitution Center, by Housefinch1787, Wikimedia Commons