Our nonprofit board is split on whether to take federal funding for our immigrant services program — half of us see it as pragmatic support for our mission and half see it as compromising with a system that's actively harming the communities we serve. We're supposed to vote next week and I can feel relationships fracturing over what feels like a question of patriotic duty versus principled resistance.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group must decide whether engaging with national institutions represents practical progress or moral compromise, exposing deeper disagreements about patriotic responsibility.
“Where Are You with National identity and patriotism examined?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.