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Randell Jones
Guest columnist
During May and June, we observe and learn from the 250th anniversary of formative events to Americaâs nation-building efforts preceding the Declaration of Independence by five years. Although independent-Americaâs civic virtues would become âlibertyâ and âequality,â these colonial events, internal to North Carolina as the War of the Regulation, reveal our Tarheel forebears confronting prevalent and persisting attitudes of superiority and class entitlement and a hard conviction that âmight makes right.â That problematic thinking still haunts us today from civic bastions it should least infect. As Walt Kellyâs Pogo said, âWe have met the enemy and he is us.â