Racial Justice
The Patriot Act Is An Extension of America’s White Power Structure
The menace of domestic terrorism is far greater than the threat of foreign terrorism
If you step outside the box and look inward at the United States, much of what you see — the worst of it — is the result of American complacency based on the nationalist idea that we’re exceptional. As if we don’t have to adhere to the most basic rules of human decency. Meanwhile, we demand so much from other nations, holding them to higher standards than we hold ourselves.
Americans are so arrogant that we, as a society, routinely fail to reflect on ourselves. Our very own behaviors reveal the worst of what we declare unacceptable across the globe. How we treat the Black community, Indigenous people, Latino groups, Asian groups, asylum seekers, the LGBTQ community, and various other marginalized people is abhorrent. I say “we” because as a society “we” need to do better. Many of us are doing important work and maybe it’s not enough, but the bigger problems have always been the refusal by the majority to do any work at all.
The menace of domestic terrorism is far greater than the threat of foreign terrorism.
