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3/ The truth is that we are both. Of 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 41 were slaveowners - which means that from the beginning, we were both adherents to the highest aspirational principles and perpetrators of the most violent forms of transgression against them.
4/ Every generation, including ours, has contained both elements, and every generation has made its choice. Slave owners v. Abolitionists, male surpramists v. Suffragettes, segregationists v. civil rights movement. It's simply our turn. The aristocratic archetype has returned.
5/ It's important to remember we're not up against anything worse than other generations had to deal with. The point is that they did it. They pushed back on oppression and injustice and so can we. Let's not be the first generation of Americans to wimp out on doing that job.
I Love @marwilliamson sooooo much
I love the sentiment that America has to account for its shadow but it's important to remember that the battle is still between slave-owners and abolitionists because the thirteenth amendment says incarcerated people can be enslaved
and the genocide of indigenous people is ongoing, not only historic. Also the aristocratic class isn't "returning," they are part of the structure of capitalism, they have been profiting from slavery and genocide THE WHOLE TIME, not just in moments of outrage and panic
*supremacists ??
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