![]() Imprinting Andrew Jackson’s face on our twenty-dollar bill is in no way different than Germany imprinting the face of Adolf Hitler on their currency 100 years after his rise to power and giving the justification that it is important to remember our history, the standard justification employed by those vying to keep the south decorated with Confederate monuments. Often times school-issued history books quickly gloss over the horrific genocide of the indigenous peoples who freely roamed the land our forefathers claimed for themselves and viciously attempted to eradicate all who occupied it before them. In a quite Orwellian fashion, our history books make heroes and martyrs of founding fathers, ardent defendants of freedom and equality. Americans are instilled with a veneration for our founding fathers through a massive propaganda campaign, otherwise known as history class. From George Washington to Benjamin Franklin (yes, he too owned slaves), our currency is stamped almost exclusively with the ugly mugs of white slaveholding aristocrats. ![]() Now, as we see widespread calls for their long-overdue destruction, it is high time we reconcile the faces we see every day. ![]() Of the monuments honoring Confederate soldiers as patriotic guardians of states’ rights and not fierce supporters of the right to brutalize and enslave. In the midst of the Civil Rights Movement, for example, the racist Dixiecrats lobbied for the construction The myth of a virtuous nation that is home to all who seek refuge and freedom has been fabricated little by little since its founding. ![]() They are deeply integrated into every level of our government, from local municipalities to the Oval Office and there has been absolutely no point in the history of the nation where that was not the case.Įven predating our revolution, historical revision has been an absolute necessity in order to maintain the mythology of America. In the weeks after the nation saw an outpour of citizens flooding the streets to demand that we radically alter our racist police force, Biden attacks his opponent while erasing the extensive, pernicious, and emphatically racist policies that predate the formal foundation of our nation. the first one that has.” An absolutely absurd notion that is quickly dispelled after one opens their wallet and takes a long gander at the slave masters and purveyors of brutal genocide who pose proudly on their currency. Just Wednesday in a Town Hall, the former Vice President stated that as a nation, “We’ve had racists, and they’ve existed, they’ve tried to get elected president. Just when we thought Joe Biden couldn’t make a more ludicrous, ahistorical comment than he had already in this election cycle, he crawled out of his basement only to, in a very Trumpian fashion, reconstruct reality to suit his agenda and subsequently shove his foot in his mouth. The myth of America is weathered and worn, and like all things destined to crumble, it erodes slowly at first, then seemingly all at once.
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