Whose Country Is This, Anyway?

From the Transcript of the video:

"I’ll start with a little story about Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence was signed 244 years ago. Like so many other cities, Philadelphia had rioting and looting in honor of George Floyd.It was so bad the city declared a curfew and called in the national guard. At one point word got out that a mob was going to tear down the statue of Columbus in Marconi Plaza. So, a group of citizens — all white, as the media was at great pains to point out — showed up with golf clubs and baseball bats to protect the statue. There was some shouting and shoving, but the statue was saved.

Did the city fathers thank the people who defended the monument? No. Mayor Jim Kenney tweeted: “All vigilantism is inappropriate, and these individuals only bring more danger to themselves and the city.” City prosecutor Larry Krasner called the people protecting the statue “criminal bullies.” The city was not proud of citizens who protected public property because if you’re white and you defend Columbus, you’re a criminal bully. And just to make sure the bullies go the message, the city boarded up the statue and promised to take it away. ...

Let’s do these things if it jolts white people out of their complacency. If it makes them understand that although there are a lot of white people in Congress, not one of them represents us. If it makes them understand that our universities teach our own children to think our country is a criminal enterprise. Let’s rename everything if that’s what it takes to make whites understand that the reason you can’t put up a sign that says, “It’s OK to be white,” is because — in America — it’s *not* OK to be white.

At the time of Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address in 1861, seven states had already seceded. He tried to save the union by appealing to: “The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone.” Even on the brink of civil war, Lincoln could speak of mystic chords of memory that stretched to every hearthstone. What are the common mystic memories of Americans today? The very words sound like a joke.

So you may have a US passport. You may pay taxes. You may put your hand on your heart when you hear the anthem, but if you’re white, this isn’t your country. Ask yourself: Is there even one white American hero we’re allowed to admire? Even one? In some, dim way, you may even think you love America, but America doesn’t love you. The official view is that we are what’s wrong with this country. We are the obstacle to a rainbow paradise.

Until we have a completely different country — or part of it that is exclusively ours — we are aliens, and not very welcome ones."