America: Imagine the World Without Her Page #2
He's a leading representative of a movement
trying to reclaim Mexico's lost lands.
Did the United States steal half
Yes, and the wealth of those areas.
California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas,
the oil, the minerals,
would have made Mexico
like it's becoming now.
When I went one time with my father
we were in an old classroom
and they had a map of North
America up in the classroom.
And it had the area that's
the American Southwest
from Texas to California
cross-thatched
with the colors of Mexico
and the United States,
and they had named that area
provincias perdidas, lost provinces.
They have killed us, beat us,
drugged us, knocked us and
raped us and robbed us.
Done everything but the right thing.
We don't see any American dream.
We've experienced only
the American nightmare.
We took Africans from their
country to build our way of ease
and kept them enslaved
and living in fear.
Well, obviously as a
black person in America,
it's, um, a part of the
wretched history of this nation
that my foremothers and forefathers
were not seen as fully human.
I spoke to the African American
scholar Michael Eric Dyson
at Georgetown University.
Has Obama's election
and re-election...
Doesn't that say something
about the end of racism?
I would not deny at all that American
has made enormous progress.
Are we there yet? No.
America doesn't want to confront
the vicious inequalities
that it set loose in this nation.
Absorbing things that are not yours.
Taking stuff that is not yours.
We can say thievery was a critical element
to the expansion of American empire
and the establishment of
the American way of life.
150 years ago at the
height of slavery,
another man made an even more
passionate indictment of America.
The American slave,
what is your 4th of July?
I answer a day that reveals to him
more than all other days in a year,
a gross injustice.
Your celebration is a sham.
You profess to believe that of
one blood God made all nations
and hath commanded all men
everywhere to love one another.
Yet, you notoriously hate
and glory in your hatred all men whose
skin are not colored like your own.
Meet Frederick Douglass.
Born a slave, he escaped to freedom
the antislavery movement.
You can bare your bosom to
the storm of British artillery
to throw off a three-penny tax on tea
and yet wring the last
hard-earned farthing
from the grasp of the black
laborers of your country.
There is not a nation on the earth
guilty of practices more shocking
and bloody
than are the people of the United
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