The founding premise of a nation often determines the nature of it’s path. The USA was founded on a genocide of Native Americans and the mass enslavement of Africans. It chose God & Freedom as it’s brand because the colonists needed to believe it was all justified. Sanctified.
This land of the free that houses 1/4 of the world’s prison population + a $700+ billion military budget to match the size of fear in the pilgrim psyche that one day the ocean itself will rise up in revenge. Generations of movements have struggled to change this, seek reparation
slay the beast that sees accumulation and profit over life (what was slavery but a huge capitalist project justified by religion & scientific racism)? Fight for the rightful respect of indigenous sovereignty, for the transformation of the violence that sees black life as lesser
to end the militarist obsession with the right to kill while preaching about a right to “life”, to vindicate this land of immigrant pilgrims that incarcerates brown-skinned children at its borders saying they can never be welcome-because they got there ‘first’.
This history of uprising is not just Martin v Malcolm (& remember that their hearts united in the same desire). This is older than that. It’s from all the way back to the beginning of it all. Hundreds of years of defiance. Women have always been its pulse too. Never forget that.
