We need to start talking more about what’s at stake if conservatives succeed in their attempts at historical erasure, like with the AP course in Arkansas.
If your idea of the greatest country is one in which you can and probably will be imprisoned through no fault if your own, forced to perform manual labor until it kills you, and if you somehow survive long enough to be released, systematically impoverished in order to force you to steal to survive and thus ensure that you end up back in prison, then I have to wonder what you think goes on in the rest of the world.
Make no mistake, this country is extremely cruel. Living here is terrifying, and I’m not even black.
And it is entirely justified. What the US did and continues to do to black people is appalling.
Aye. Understanding our part is essential - even the bad parts.
That doesn’t invalidate my stance that the US is still the greatest country.
But if you are a reductionist, looking for a simple lie, holding those two truths simultaneously is very difficult.
If your idea of the greatest country is one in which you can and probably will be imprisoned through no fault if your own, forced to perform manual labor until it kills you, and if you somehow survive long enough to be released, systematically impoverished in order to force you to steal to survive and thus ensure that you end up back in prison, then I have to wonder what you think goes on in the rest of the world.
Make no mistake, this country is extremely cruel. Living here is terrifying, and I’m not even black.
Per capita, the US has incarcerated more black men than China has Uyghurs.
https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers