Celebrate Everything

You can't celebrate if you don't understand the mistakes and the places that need growth. How do you commemorate a history you don't learn? How do you have pride in what you don't know?

There is significance in the mistakes and the flaws, and it's with pride that I reflect on them and how they're never truly been resolved. There's not much to celebrate when the foundations and principles you symbolically 'uphold' aren't there for everyone. How do you cherry-pick equality and the other 38 something ideals your uncles and fathers 'fought for'

Will I shit on the system because it doesn't work while actively existing within it?

If I answer no, then I don't really take the day off to observe.