Germany has spent the decades since World War II in national penance for Nazi crimes. America spent the decades after the Civil War transforming Confederate crimes into virtues. It is illegal to fly the Nazi flag in Germany. The Confederate flag is enmeshed in the state flag of Mississippi.
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My job is to look out on that world that I write about and be as honest as I possibly can about that world. If that's optimistic and uplifting, OK. If it's not, OK.
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Black people are pledging their fealty to the state, and yet they aren't getting the same return. This is theft. It's systemized.
Tags: return, same, black, people
'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies.
Tags: control, america, white, power
White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.
Tags: heritage, country, white, history
In comics, you have to imagine what happens. I really loved it; I loved collecting. I loved following the adventures and figuring out what was going to happen next. I was a huge X-Men fan; I was a huge Spider-Man fan, and, to large degree, I remain one. It's literature for me; it's art.
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