The United States is a country symbolically founded on the ideas of liberty and justice for all. Yet it is also founded on the practice of ethnocide of Native Americans, the enslavement of African peoples and their descendents, the removal of Spanish speaking citizens and a harsh and unjust policy to Asians—including exclusion acts.

The United States is a country symbolically founded on the ideas of liberty and justice for all. Yet it is also founded on the practice of ethnocide of Native Americans, the enslavement of African peoples and their descendents, the removal of Spanish speaking citizens and a harsh and unjust policy to Asians—including exclusion acts.

Daily Kos: Race and racism: barriers and bridges (via notime4yourshit

The truth of the USA is ugly.

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Here’s another one to file under No Shit, Sherlock.

Seriously, go buy yourself a copy of “A People’s History of the United States of America, 1492-Present” by Howard Zinn, because if you haven’t read it, you’re just not smart enough.