It Was All An Illusion
“America is #1!” “America is the best!” “We are the moral high ground!” We are? It has been clear to me for years that those “quips” about this country were lies. But everyone around me, until recently, were acting as if those american exceptionalism propaganda talking points, were real. Do you know how crazy-making it is, being confronted with the truth of amerikkka and everyone around you is telling you, it’s all in your mind; it might have happened, you might have seen it, it could have even happened, to you, however, it didn’t; you are imagining it all. (Can anyone say: 1984 by George Orwell? Double-Speak, anyone?)
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This image of jail cell comparisons—one in Sweden, the other in ameriKKKa—is a perfect visual of the facade of “american exceptionalism” come crumbling down. Like the scene in 1989s, I’m Gonna Get You Sucka (written and directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans), where a beautiful womxn begins dismantling her “facade,” at the close of a date, by taking off her makeup, her wig, escalating to taking out her teeth, a leg, etc. before an astounded and horrified date. Well, that is an apropos analogy for what is unfolding right before America’s and the World’s very eyes: the truth of who and what America/america/AmeriKKKa/amerikkka has always been, what exactly this land was founded upon: the slaughter and rape of Indigenous Peoples’s lands and bodies, the violent taking of the innocence of Chinese femxles, and on the backs and psyches and murders and rapes of kidnapped Africans and their Black American Ancestors—to name a few of the violent and sadistic ways in which america came to be and a nation that has no moral ground to stand upon. It never did, it was all an illusion.
Erika L. Ganier
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This image of jail cell comparisons—one in Sweden, the other in ameriKKKa—is a perfect visual of the facade of “american exceptionalism” come crumbling down. Like the scene in 1989s, I’m Gonna Get You Sucka (written and directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans), where a beautiful womxn begins dismantling her “facade,” at the close of a date, by taking off her makeup, her wig, escalating to taking out her teeth, a leg, etc. before an astounded and horrified date. Well, that is an apropos analogy for what is unfolding right before America’s and the World’s very eyes: the truth of who and what America/america/AmeriKKKa/amerikkka has always been, what exactly this land was founded upon: the slaughter and rape of Indigenous Peoples’s lands and bodies, the violent taking of the innocence of Chinese femxles, and on the backs and psyches and murders and rapes of kidnapped Africans and their Black American Ancestors—to name a few of the violent and sadistic ways in which america came to be and a nation that has no moral ground to stand upon. It never did, it was all an illusion.
Erika L. Ganier
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