And a Wounded Country There is a deep wound cleaved in this country. Our shortened and selective memory would like us to believe it is a new cut, slashed by modern politics; left vs right, right vs wrong, sinner vs saved, white vs brown, and two oppositional, dehumanized political parties. However, the first blow was struck over 400 years ago when in search of freedom, the powers that became power, took that freedom away from others. First from the brown-skin communities that