Birthright
Filed by: Antonia D'orsay
February 10, 2010 11:00 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/02/birthright.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2010/02/birthright.php)
This is the one I should have written before.
Birthright.
As a word, it has lost much of its luster, its common power, its fundamental importance in our lives.
A birthright is more than just inheritance -- indeed, it speaks directly to the concept of rights, of those things which are inalienable to those born unto it.
But a birthright is still part of one's inheritance, and one inherits based on one's kinship in our American culture.