Real United States remains seriously challenged
This is not America.
That statement may rank as the No. 1 observation made about the Capitol insurgency.
Unfortunately — it is. America reps as white-privileged. Powerful. Angry. Hateful. Destructive. Hurtful. Prejudiced. Belligerent. Guilty. Shameless. Relentless. Unapologetic.
The United States appears potentially doomed with no lasting improvement on race relations and economic opportunity.
Despite a history of emotional, physical and psychological violence waged on Blacks, Latinos, women, Jews, etc; despite lynchings, beatings, slavery, and a list of other human insults, plus, a thirst for blood, many white Americans get cast as peace makers.
That’s why U.S. Capitol Police allowed a brotherhood angry mob access into areas that should have been off limits.
By the way, had Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi been found in her office, or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in her domain, those invaders would have killed these two controversial Democrats where they stood.
When one understands our nation’s history, that white people owned blacks not so long ago and that ownership meant white men could rape black people; cut off our feet and hands; host public castrations; hoist and hang us in trees, and sing “God Bless America”, then maybe we could abandon our “This is not America” claim.
George Floyd, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor, Elijah McClain, etc. died as extensions of the U.S. violent past.
In fact, our refusal to confront the past, deal with the original sin of slavery and all events afterward, prevents significant progress.
If people knew this country’s true history then they would abandon this obscene — This is not America — notion. Despite a personal disengagement from the ‘it is what it is’ resolution, acceptance of these United States current status sounds necessary for extraction from our catastrophic condition.
Last year, many people found out about the Tulsa race massacre for the first time, an incident that took place on May 31and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents attacked black residents and burned businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Greenwood District showcased black middle class affluence until a white mob torched, bombed and destroyed the community. One hundred years later, America feels just as nasty and hateful.
Reading and knowing history exposes the United States’ dark and deceitful past, redirects our understanding about our potentially great nation.
The hate and murder extended to other races, ethnicities and religions.
In 1885, Sweetwater, Wyoming generated the Rock Springs Massacre when a mob of white miners killed at least 28 Chinese men who were hired as miners. Union Pacific Railroad cared only about the financial advantage offered by hiring Chinese men willing to work for reduced wages.
Attacks on Jews and antiSemitism remain part of this nation’s fabric.
In October, 2018, a gunman yelling, “All Jews must die,” stormed a Pittsburgh synagogue during Saturday services. The ambush took the lives of 11 worshippers. He wounded six others of our sisters and brothers before being arrested.
In this America, even from some Blacks, Jews have endured a harsh rebuttal to their humanity, religion and values. If we were improving then antiSemitic attacks would decrease. Not in this America.
Instead, the Anti-Defamation League reported all-time highs of anti-Semitic incidents in 2019.
It’s understandable that Americans distort reality — desires for forming a more perfect union rank as admirable. Reaching lofty goals of life, liberty and pursuits of happiness, where all men and women are created equal seems distant, maybe even unreachable.
Trump the Republican leaves. President-elect Joe Biden the Democrat enters. Four hundred years since those first dark men stepped into North American soil we remain in full struggle with assuring equality and justice for all.
What the world witnessed Wednesday showed the real underbelly of these United States.
Welcome to America.