The history of our country impacts our present day realities through generational trauma, inequality, and systems of oppression. The leaders of our country have shown them selves to be be cunning and focused on maintaining power and control through the disenfranchisement of people of color. Though the methods may change in order to hide motivations, it has been made clear year after year that there is not equality and laws or programs are created in order to maintain that control. We also know that generations are not independent from one another and trauma can have lasting effects throughout the years.
Watching these videos is overwhelming for me- I am learning more and more each day about the darkness of our country. I know that I could sit down and watch a hundred more videos of different stories of inequality, hatred, oppression, and violence against people of color. I desire to continue to learn and have my eyes opened to truth, but have found myself struggling with the vast amounts of information.
I can relate to your emotions about this. I did not grow up here, but moved here as a 35 year old woman from a country that did not face this trauma in this way. I was surprised to learn that Hitler learned from Americans how to gas people in order to sanitize them from their so called diseases, but evil escalated into using the same gas in higher concentration (maybe why it was called concentration camps?) to kill them in the thousands, and he did it with thousands of supporters. I bet he would not have succeeded if he did it prior to building a safety net of forced supporters around him, that would get in trouble if they did not follow orders. I am glad this cannot be kept in the dark anymore. Without history, no future. We cannot forget or it will repeat over and over.