I love basketball, but I can't talk about *just* basketball when people are getting murdered and children are being taken away. This is where my voice came from and why I can't be quiet.
No, obviously it doesn't excuse what is happening today, all I'm saying is it's more of the same. Nothing has changed, other than now it is slightly more overt and perhaps more obvious to a certain demographic. What is happening now is the what has been happening for centuries. I find it odd a lot of people are only just noticing was more my point.
I agree. I think the idea itself is flawed and a lot of those flaws stem from being poisoned by capitalism, but that’s another debate and conversation, hey?
To be fair, the American Dream your father chased after wasn't any better. The US has been a hellscape for centuries, built on systemic racism, exploitation, mass wealth disparity and forced labor.
Does that excuse what is happening today? No. I’ve never said the American Dream was built on fairness, but I speak from the experience of seeing how that ideology carried people through hardship and how something so integral to this country as a whole is now being vilified and attacked by its own federal government in a way that is unlawful and inhuman.
No, obviously it doesn't excuse what is happening today, all I'm saying is it's more of the same. Nothing has changed, other than now it is slightly more overt and perhaps more obvious to a certain demographic. What is happening now is the what has been happening for centuries. I find it odd a lot of people are only just noticing was more my point.
I agree. I think the idea itself is flawed and a lot of those flaws stem from being poisoned by capitalism, but that’s another debate and conversation, hey?
Amen. Capitalism is the root of all of it.
To be fair, the American Dream your father chased after wasn't any better. The US has been a hellscape for centuries, built on systemic racism, exploitation, mass wealth disparity and forced labor.
Does that excuse what is happening today? No. I’ve never said the American Dream was built on fairness, but I speak from the experience of seeing how that ideology carried people through hardship and how something so integral to this country as a whole is now being vilified and attacked by its own federal government in a way that is unlawful and inhuman.