A White America
A couple years ago in 10th grade English, we were assigned to read 1984. We sat in shock, surprised at how a government was able to brainwash its citizens so effectively, to the point in which they were oblivious to the manipulation they were experiencing. But somehow, as I grow older, I seem to understand these tactics more and more, as I notice them within our own society. This may seem to be an extremist view on our society, but upon reading “Stamped” within the past few weeks, I realized that extremism has been at the core of all our mindsets for centuries. The history classes which we’ve been taking since the beginning of elementary school have been revealed to be a distorted version of our country’s history, the version that not only forces us to love America, but to love white America. Even before we start sitting through history classes in elementary school, we begin pledging our allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands,
