...yet we somehow are, which is a problem. This quote right here goes in perfect conjuction with your previous (Jackson) quote saying "It's so much easier to accept the mythology of the greatness of America..." --- of course, my mind immedinately goes to that famous slogan coined by Reagan, and later, the one and only, Donald Trump. I often wonder do people who actually choose to believe in that slogan understand, let alone care, the weight of that phrase; because to say a land that was found by accident, stolen from it's original people, and used as (essentially) a mass grave for generations of enslaved Africans, is/was somehow ever "great" says a lot about what a bigot views as a "perfect world". It also explains why that kind of person will never choose to acknowledge hatred and discrimination -- they see nothing wrong with that way of thinking.