This quote makes me think of the "Manifest Destiny" and other watered down history that we learned about in high school. The fact that I've learned more about my history on TikTok and Twitter than in an actual classroom is insane, but most definitely not surprising. In high school, we were taught that slavery looked like "Roots" or Harriet Tubman. But in actuality, it went deeper than that... our skin was made into leather, slavemasters used our teeth for dentures, "picnic" stands for "pick a n*", and so on. America's true history is too gruesome for the white people who set these institutions in place to even accept. OR, maybe they do accept it and just have a god complex about it. Truthfully, America runs on the labor of immigrants and minorities; it would not be where it is today without it.

I think this is extremely true, yet for some reason it is "taboo" to call white people out for it. This reminds me of how in one article we read about a white woman who told the judge that she was uncomfortable with how the results of a black man's trial came out and he told her she did not have to worry about it as long as she did her job (or something along the lines of that). However, once she rebelled against this, she was imprisoned just like that. This goes to show that it is a white person's worst nightmare for their white privilege to be corrupted because they're too comfortable within it to even recognize it. It also shows the juxtaposition between white and black people as we are taught to be hyperaware of our race.