@pattykimura @GhostOnTheHalfShell
Right? One side are immigrant grandparents, on the other are people who signed the Declaration, people who have fought in every conflict this country has chosen to wage, there are forts with my family name on them, my ancestral home is now a museum to the Underground Railroad, and we are all over the history of this country.
I absolutely hate what America represents to the world. We could have been our ambitions. We could have been the shining city on a hill, with equal rights, and pursuit of happiness. We could have shone the beacon of Enlightenment.
But, our start was polluted with slavery and racism, things we swept under the rug, things my ancestors despised but still agreed to allow to happen, to reach consensus.
Our end was predicated by our beginning. We can fix it. We can destroy what has been built by the hands of those who hate us, and we can, we really can be the good people we think we are. But only if we stop trying for consensus.