The text threads in my phone today are filled with melancholy, angry, depressed variations on the same theme: that most of the people who have my phone number simply do not have the heart to celebrate American Independence Day today.

I’ve always felt pretty mixed about the way we celebrate this anniversary of America’s birth…

On this day in history, a lot of horrific atrocities were committed against Asian people. And even though we are commemorating past acts of violence waged against Asians, the numbers of anti-Asian attacks are only continuing to rise over the past year.

Today is not only the one year anniversary of the shootings in Atlanta…