My Country Broke My Heart

It breaks my heart to see what the United States has turned into, but maybe this is exactly what the country always was.

My country is the number one incarcerator on the planet.

It is a place where one out of every three women, behind bars worldwide, is incarcerated in the so-called “Land of the Free.”

And Still It’s Not Enough

We watch them now as they seem to take delight in building more prisons/concentration camps and outsourcing victims of their foreign policy to other countries in what they call the “global south” where shameless presidents who join in on the commodification of suffering. We watch as their outpost in the Middle East (Israel), shoots at people, desperate for food. The United States has been complicit in that genocide since day one. Yet they do not bat an eye as the kill the people of Gaza. I saw U.S. professional baseball teams, tweet about their support for Israel, but spoke nothing about the people of Palestine. It is as if some lives mattered more than others.

All our life they told us about the Holocaust and they showed us those images, and for what, if it was not to make sure injustice and racism ended?

Did they not teach us that history, so we could create a world that would never allow those attrocities to be committed on anyone? If that was not the reason the taught us that history, then what was their motive, or was it more for geo-political reasons?