This Is America: The Racist Myths We Tell Ourselves.

“This is America (skrrt, skrrt, woo)
Don’t catch you slippin’ now (ayy)
Look at how I’m livin’ now
Police be trippin’ now (woo)
Yeah, this is America (woo, ayy)” — This America By Childish Gambino

America is the land of propaganda. We tell lies about our history to hide who we are so we can become who they want us to become: subservient to white supremacy. It is our myths about melting pots and racial and ethnic harmony that continue to harm us. The promise of assimilation is to convert you from the unwashed into submissive, obedient, worshipers of white supremacy. Only this conversion will redeem you in this America. We are instructed to ignore the past that we find upsetting and replace it with stories that support our new traditions. We are America. We are kind, generous, prosperous, and decent. The genocide of Native Americans, we downplay and obscure our actions only to emphasize how we brought them modern conveniences. The enslavement of black people, we conceal our brutality while we tell how we rescued them from their pagan false gods and famine to introduce them to Christ and share with them the bountiful scraps from our table. This is the propaganda America tries to sell. This is how whiteness is allowed to operate in the open: creating a false past that is a jealous deity that must be praised.