Mastodawn

This country is so big. I mean, I think I knew it intellectually but I don’t think I really understood it until I spent the last few days traveling through it by train. I come from a country that’s so small, you get two other countries’ cellular signal if you stand at your window.

In four days, I’ve been in three different time zones. I’m now three hours ahead of San Francisco, here in Atlanta.

I’m in the south for the first time. It might as well be a completely different country. I’ll be checking out all the museums and monuments relating to civil rights while I’m here. This place was an important place in that struggle.

http://atlantacivilrights.com/civilrights/essay_detail.asp?phase=1

Atlanta in the Civil Rights Movement

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Adrianna Tan 1d ago

When the train was passing through Arizona, they said Navajo Nation is larger than Vermont and Massachusetts put together. It kind of broke my brain.

I’ve found that when I try to spend more time learning about Black and Native history and culture, I get a much truer sense of the U.S. today, particularly how many of today’s problems seem to be continuations of old time racism and Civil War divisions.

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Alan Bucknam

@skinnylatte if you haven’t read Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s book “An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States” I’d highly recommend it. It’s a good overview of how colonialism and counterinsurgent war built the United States, and how the legacy of those two systems pervade our current situation. As a white guy born in the land of Manifest Destiny Colorado it was really illuminating. https://www.beacon.org/An-Indigenous-Peoples-History-of-the-United-States-P1164.aspx

Beacon Press: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples

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Adrianna Tan 1d ago

@bucknam thanks for the rec!