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The Massive Anti-war Movement, Which I Was A Part Of And Which Was A Major Part Of My Life, Never Stopped The War In Vietnam.

We Just Watched This Budget Debacle Right? Seventy-three Percent Of Americans Want To Tax The Rich. Why Can't The Politicians Respond To That? Because They Are The Rich. And They Are Beholden To The Rich. It's A Captured System.

One-hundred Facts About Vietnam And We Studied The Fact Sheet And Got In To These Arguments And It Was Fantastic, And I Remember One Moment When We Heard Two Students Saying Don't Talk To Those Guys, Meaning My Brother And Me. They've Just Memorized That Stupid Fact Sheet. And We Thought, Gosh Do We Sound That Good? It Didn't Seem Possible. But That Was My Introduction To Politics.

I Wasn't Part Of John Kennedy's Vision Of The World, Or Lyndon Johnson's. I Thought Of Them As Anti-communist Imperial Monsters.

Dunbar-ortiz Strips Us Of Our Forged Innocence, Shocks Us Into New Awareness, And Draws A Straight Line From The Sins Of Our Fathers-settler-colonialism, The Doctrine Of Discovery, The Myth Of Manifest Destiny, White Supremacy, Theft And Systematic Killing-to The Contemporary Condition Of Permanent War, Invasion And Occupation, Mass Incarceration, And The Constant Use And Threat Of State Violence.