I still love America. Rather it is rooted in learned commitment to an inclusive society such as I was taught by civil rights America, a compassionate Catholic Church, a social democratic Fianna Fail. America taught me there could be a society where equal rights were possible for women, for people of colour, for gays. So, I still love America. America, after navigator Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) who claimed to have discovered it.

Source: The Irish Times July 03, 2020 23:26 UTC