I've always wondered about that place, never having stopped there coming to or going from Mexico. An interesting meditation on history and responsibility. The Germans have done an admirable job in acknowledging guilt for the Holocaust and making reparations. Our collective guilt is buried conveniently in the past and history is what the right wing is at great pains to suppress.
Yeah...I mean I also think that they recognize that "paying people back" would mean they themselves would have not much left, hence things like empty "land acknowledgment statements," which I've always thought were silly. "We recognize we stole this from you; we're not going to give it back, we just wanted to say we acknowledge you were stolen from." Like, what's the point?
Another great song that references Texas’ sugar plantation history of slavery: https://youtu.be/t-jN49rQoLI?si=dpVbGnQoEdbI233e
I've always wondered about that place, never having stopped there coming to or going from Mexico. An interesting meditation on history and responsibility. The Germans have done an admirable job in acknowledging guilt for the Holocaust and making reparations. Our collective guilt is buried conveniently in the past and history is what the right wing is at great pains to suppress.
Yeah...I mean I also think that they recognize that "paying people back" would mean they themselves would have not much left, hence things like empty "land acknowledgment statements," which I've always thought were silly. "We recognize we stole this from you; we're not going to give it back, we just wanted to say we acknowledge you were stolen from." Like, what's the point?