The Earth is writhing now and the people are seething. It is as though all that was formerly hidden, within ourselves, our country and the power structures that have "governed" us is now being revealed.
You cannot move forward and claim you are a progressive country if your nascent economy was built on the back of slaves. You cannot oppress and desecrate a people and call yourself great in any way.
You cannot write and proclaim a Declaration of Independence and extol equal rights for all if you are a slave owner.
And if this constitutes the beginning of a country and these egregious imbalances have not been addressed, then a country can never be "strong again." Indeed the fact that the myth of "strength" has persisted this long is an illusion.
There is no country in the world that can declare itself "progressive" if it has tortured, maimed, and destroyed its people. If it has treated them as though they were detritus because of the color of their skin or for how they choose to worship. Or for their gender.
It's over people: the myth of white supremacy is showing itself .... to be just that.
As is the myth of patriarchy.
There are no chosen people as we are ALL chosen. There are no favorites as we are ALL favorites.
There is no manifest destiny unless it includes ALL.
You cannot move forward and claim you are a progressive country if your nascent economy was built on the back of slaves. You cannot oppress and desecrate a people and call yourself great in any way.
You cannot write and proclaim a Declaration of Independence and extol equal rights for all if you are a slave owner.
And if this constitutes the beginning of a country and these egregious imbalances have not been addressed, then a country can never be "strong again." Indeed the fact that the myth of "strength" has persisted this long is an illusion.
There is no country in the world that can declare itself "progressive" if it has tortured, maimed, and destroyed its people. If it has treated them as though they were detritus because of the color of their skin or for how they choose to worship. Or for their gender.
It's over people: the myth of white supremacy is showing itself .... to be just that.
As is the myth of patriarchy.
There are no chosen people as we are ALL chosen. There are no favorites as we are ALL favorites.
There is no manifest destiny unless it includes ALL.