While some grill meats, unite with families, picnic with friends and drink beer, and others question identity, question what is American, blindly quote words of our founding fathers and reflect on wise yet provocative and controversial words from one of our greatest thinkers of our shared history, I turn to one of the greatest collaborations in American history. May I present the divine Sarah Vaughn and the delightful George Gershwin.

Declare Independence.

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