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Are the #US on a road to a #NewCivilWar or to a resolution of #SystemicRacism?

Truthful history education in the #US would be quintessential, yes, but very hard, because the US are built as a #SlaverNation right from the start, as film maker #MatthewCooke brilliantly argues in the episode "Slaver Nation" of his #podcast, #AmericanOriginStories:

#Slavery' s been an integral part since its founding, woven into the very fabric of all #US nation-building for centuries, not just the, say..

Book cover in black and white, devided by a vertical rupture in the middle, the left being black on white, the right being white on black. Caption: "The Next Civil War Dispatches from the American Future By Stephen Marche About The Book “Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Well researched and eloquently presented.” —The Atlantic * “Delivers Cormac McCarthy-worthy drama; while the nonfictional asides imbue that drama with the authority of documentary.” —The New York Times Book Review A celebrated journalist takes a fiercely divided America and imagines five chilling scenarios that lead to its collapse, based on in-depth interviews with experts of all kinds. The United States is coming to an end. The only question is how." Source: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Next-Civil-War/Stephen-Marche/9781982123222