Surely, “America the Beautiful” is one of our country’s finest patriotic songs. The words were written in 1895.
But now, more than a hundred years later, we have violent gangs of white nationalists parading, torch-carrying neo-Nazis, perpetrating horrific violence against Jews and carrying out acts of racial prejudice, and so it goes. Sadly, our once great America is not so beautiful anymore.
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