Re: "America is not a racist country": we are going through a period of amnesia, as if the horrors of our collective action / systems are too much to bear. So we're shoveling the atrocities and the ongoing discrimination into our shadow bag and patting ourselves on the back for having such a lustrous public self. Chris Christie--no fan of Trump over much of the last year or two--has said he would give Trump's presidency an A. The Washington Post has profiled a rare media outlet in Pennsylvania that keeps the seditionists' feet to the fire while other news sources have already "moved on": https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/the-politicians-who-tried-to-overturn-an-election--and-the-local-news-team-that-wont-let-anyone-forget-it/2021/05/01/cc8764f6-a91e-11eb-8d25-7b30e74923ea_story.html
Your musical moment of Zen: Robert Wyatt's brilliant "The United States of Amnesia" ("Let's have no reservations, let's have a clean sweep...").
