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All are created equal

Dear BTL,
I would like to start out with saying that Ms. Rosa Parks was a good woman and an example to follow with her courage. She placed lighter fluid under the spark that brought a nation to a rally and she did it with grace and peace. She started something that is nowhere near being finished. After 50 years we still are not equal.
I am a gay man that has been in a faithful relationship for over five years. My partner is Canadian. I was born in this nation and am also one of Her Majesties Canadian subjects. With my duel citizenship I have a unique understanding of both of our governments.
With that said, Ms. Parks did the right and moral thing (even though the state of Alabama still has not pardoned her), but she and every African-American at that time was a second class citizen. Why am I? If I refuse to pay my taxes because I am not recognized with the same constitutional rights that were given to all men, would I be honored as a hero for breaking the law as Ms. Parks did?
The same crown that this country fought a revolution for to gain freedom gave freedom to the slaves many decades before this nation did and it did not take a war for that to happen. This same crown is acknowledging me as a full citizen, unlike the nation whose Constitution I was born under that declared All Men Are Created Equal.
This nation has a long way to go for equality, dignity and respect for all human beings.

J.L.
Ann Arbor/Windsor

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