A shithole country in other words.
They teach their children that America was founded on freedom.
This is technically true and functionally a lie.
It was founded on freedom for a specific group of people, built on the land of people who were killed to make room for it, with labor stolen from people who were not considered people.
This is not a radical interpretation. This is what the documents say. This is what the archaeology says. This is what the ledgers say.
And they know. The educated ones know. They learned it in college. Some of them teach it.
But knowing it and integrating it, letting it change your fundamental self-image, your relationship to the country, your understanding of what you owe and to whom, that is different.
Knowledge without integration is decoration.
They have decorated their guilt beautifully.
It has not changed anything structural.
The people who were killed for the land are still dealing with the consequences of that land being taken.
The people whose labor built the wealth are still dealing with the consequences of that wealth being extracted.
The pretty acknowledgment sits on top of the unchanged structure.
And is called progress.