Month: May 2025

We live in a great, diverse country where we may each have opinions.  The First Amendment guarantees the right to practice different religions and express our opinions.  We don’t have to agree, but we do have to coexist.  Our founding fathers understood that we built our country from many distinct parts.  The very name “United States” implies a collection of many.  The similar Latin phrase ‘E Pluribus Unum’, placed on all our currency, means ‘From many, one’.

For our citizens to all collectively believe the same things is profoundly dangerous.  Homogeneity is our enemy; diversity is our friend.  Our founding fathers listed the freedoms to practice our faiths and express our different opinions as the First Amendment.  This is the very definition of diversity.  You’re entitled to your faith and expressions, as long as they do not impinge upon others’ rights.

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I’ll write a Star Wars-themed post after observing May 4th (affectionately recognized as Star Wars Day).  In 1977, as a 9-year-old boy, I watched Star Wars at the movie theater in Puerto Rico with Spanish subtitles, even though I barely knew how to speak English.  The movie stunned and even fascinated me; even back then, I knew it would make a lasting impression.  However, I did not anticipate Star Wars becoming a franchise and, dare I say, a pantheon.  Though strangely, this is precisely what I needed.

As a child, I would’ve described Star Wars as science fiction.  As I grew older, I realized it was closer to fantasy.  It had its type of swords and sorcery with light sabers and the Force.  The classic conflict of good versus evil anchors the story, and it starts with the onset of the first scene of the first film, Star Wars (A New Hope).  Darth Vader boards the smaller captured vessel and immediately dominates the scene.  His imposing stature in all black symbolically earmarks him as the villain.

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