Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
But take heart, the peckerwoods days are numbered
Yes, they may have built it. But this is our country.
Even though we poured the foundation and hammered the nails, America is constructed from a white dream. They were the original owners of this flawed house and black people have been trying to fix it ever since. We were the workers whose hands constructed this country.
When they say they “built this” country, they are totally oblivious to the design flaws. White people telling black people, Muslims and immigrants how “white people built this country” is like Ford screaming “We built this Pinto!” while blaming the shitty engine and terrible design on the workers in the factory.
If white people want credit for building this country, then they also have to take the blame for constructing a system of oppression and white supremacy. They don’t get praise for their forefathers’ accomplishments without accountability for their ancestors’ atrocities.
The inequality is theirs alone. They built racism in the foundation. Inequality is in the structure. Poverty is part of their plan. They want it all back because they are afraid we will tear down the parts that have always worked for them. Only them.
https://www.theroot.com/white-people-are-right-they-built-this-country-1827688632
Yes, they may have built it. But this is our country.
Even though we poured the foundation and hammered the nails, America is constructed from a white dream. They were the original owners of this flawed house and black people have been trying to fix it ever since. We were the workers whose hands constructed this country.
When they say they “built this” country, they are totally oblivious to the design flaws. White people telling black people, Muslims and immigrants how “white people built this country” is like Ford screaming “We built this Pinto!” while blaming the shitty engine and terrible design on the workers in the factory.
If white people want credit for building this country, then they also have to take the blame for constructing a system of oppression and white supremacy. They don’t get praise for their forefathers’ accomplishments without accountability for their ancestors’ atrocities.
The inequality is theirs alone. They built racism in the foundation. Inequality is in the structure. Poverty is part of their plan. They want it all back because they are afraid we will tear down the parts that have always worked for them. Only them.
https://www.theroot.com/white-people-are-right-they-built-this-country-1827688632
