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“In this delimited capitalist calculus, the dehumanizing goal is to move from being in debt to being a creditor.”

“…It erases origin stories and relationships to land that are fundamental to Indigenous knowledge systems. It lionizes immigrants while erasing the shifting forms of xenophobia direct at migrants throughout the history of the United States. Lastly, it skips across important junctures of solidarity, including Irish immigrants’ initial solidarity with Black people out of a recognition of being cast as the…”

“While there’s no doubt that immigrants have played an important role in the ride if the United States as a world power, Kennedy’s words are both wrong and, more worrisome, widely perpetuated through school curricula and racist mascots that depict Native people as warrior men of the past. The belief that this is a nation built by immigrants does several things at once…”

“It seemed to him that life was but a trouble, at best and he more than half envied Jimmy Hodges, so lately released; it must be very peaceful, he thought, to lie and slumber and dream forever and ever, with the wind whispering through the trees and caressing the grass and the flowers over the grave, and nothing to bother and grieve about, ever any more.”

“The sun rose upon a tranquil world, and beamed down upon the peaceful village like a benediction.”