Connect the Dots 101

“At every point in the history of American tyranny, the honest recorders heard the sounds of denial. Today is no different.

Americans remember and accept the enfranchising of citizens and peaceful transfers of power as their history, while forgetting and denying the coup plots, the attempted coups, and the successful coups. White terror is as American as the Stars and Stripes. But when this is denied, it is no wonder that the events at the Capitol are read as shocking and un-American.”

Ibram X. Kendi

Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/denial-heartbeat-america/617631/

(Thx to Kelly Fenton)