Black Americans fought for democracy and freedom. It's not just a matter of striking statuses of Confederate leaders and soldiers or banning the Confederate flag from public spaces. It's not a matter of celebrating one month in a year. Without the hard work of learning about that history of kidnapping, buying and selling for the purposes of enslaving human beings, what are white Americans, regardless of their education-- what are they talking about?
I hear dancing around a tree where a charred body hangs.
The narrative inclusion of black Americans in the US and the subsequent record of white violence is being erased. American history, in other words, is being cleansed with bleach. And that means opening the door for stark white statues of Robert E. Lee to appear across an America that seems to always make a point in rubbing the Confederate history in black faces.
And Frederick Douglass or Harriet Tubman or Toni Morrison-- well, we. Americans can't read about them. Finally. End of story. Stamp the executive order on D.E.I. and give a wink to all the Americans relived at not having to feel guilty any more about that history of white terrorism against humanity on this soil.
What if America recognized in the decline of America, a refusal, on the part of Americans to acknowledge American history? There can't be two histories: the one in which Americans are innocent of any conquest genocide, kidnapping, enslavement, and imperialism and the other in which John Lewis is weeping? So many ancestors are at Elimina shaking their heads.
What's so appealing to some Americans about Hungary?
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