America’s Crossroads Space in Time

“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” ~ James Baldwin

I do as well. And I refuse to apologize for it or step back or down when people don’t like it.

At this point in our shared American history, all major criticisms are out there, are generally well-known by a good percentage of the population and for those who don’t know what is going on with global majority populations in this country, it is because they don’t want to know.

Willful ignorance is a sin if anything is, as it creates an “unknowing class” of citizenry proud of their folly, who will believe damn near anything except the truth that sullies their perception of this nation. Even if they know parts of the truth — like, there was a thing called slavery or, black folks still weren’t free after slavery for a hundred years or, desegregation didn’t really work or, housing and job issues are still problematic, putting all of those elements together to understand that there is a system-wide culture of white aggrandizement and black demonization that is a continuation of policies and societal affectations that have been in place for a long, long time — there is still an unwillingness to own up to the need to fix it, or, that the generations currently living are the ones who must correct the nation’s course.

We are still connected to the slave patrols and the black codes in the way that police interact with black and brown…