While I was reading Applebaum's article, I didn't recognize the America I know, the America millions of black Americans know. I couldn't see my ancestors or me or my fellow black Americans as a concern of hers in the article.
There's something about Hungary that entices some Americans, and other Americans won't acknowledge just what that "something" is.
"When America catches a cold, black people get pneumonia..."
Economist Richard Wolff argues that the US is a nation on the decline. We've had a century of being on the rise, but now. he notes, the America empire is over. It's hard for Americans, continues, to "wrap their heads" around the idea of a declining USA. China and the BRIC nations, however, are steady rising. The EU sees in the US a once ally it now can no longer depend upon.
Wolff suggests that the US needs to sit down with China and discuss shared interests. If China is to be believed, he adds, it claims to have no interest in becoming an empire. Instead, it envisions a "multi-national world".
I agree with Wolff-- the US empire is on the decline! Over 700 military bases; and yet, the US can't seem to declare "victory" over smaller countries, such as Korea, Vietnam, or Afghanistan. I agree again to his assessment that America is "in trouble". It's turning on its friends. It's turning "in on itself". We, here, in the US are witnesses "desperation politics".
We are, certainly, being distracted and misdirected by those trying to disappear America's history of violent conquest and enslavement. The Trump administration, one that admires the accomplishments of Putin and Orba'n, has made D.E.I. a crime. The reason America has been a declining nation is because of its D.E.I. policies. These policies, if we deconstruct as Derrida would, means that the inclusion of people of color, black people, in particular, has somehow darkened American and a darkened America is naturally headed for the bottom.
Let's hurry and ban any reference to black history. Books written by or about black people, remove from the schools and libraries. Funding to the Smithsonian is canceled because Trump see in the institutes effort to offer an egalitarian perspective of American history only "'improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology'" (The Guardian). Trump wants what he calls the "rewrite of American history" to be replaced with "'objective facts'".
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