This country, it must be noted, was built on protest and the fight for agency and independence. The first and most enduring symbol of American independence from Big Brother and the world’s most powerful nation, England, was immortalized by American “patriots” dumping 342 barrels of the tea off the good ship Eleanor in Griffin’s Harbor in Boston in 1773. What was ‘Mother’ England’s crime? Taxation without representation, the same thing the District of Columbia complains about in 2023, more than 225 years later. The irony should not be lost on any of us that Crispus Attucks, a mulatto of Black and Native American descent, was the first person to be killed in the Boston Massacre. Yes, European white Americans took the country from the Indians,