Tre Thomas’s Reviews > A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present > Status Update

It is irritating how war is used to distract working class people every time momentum towards labor equality really gets going

Curious how manifest destiny evolved into an imperial drive for expansion for the ruling class, while the average citizen had little interest in becoming an empire

The insidious nature of how organically racism resurges time and time again is as incredible as it is terrible, like a cockroach that keeps coming back

The emergence and enacting of manifest destiny is duplicitous and enlightening given current events

My rage for the white men and their institutions who deliberately seeded and cultivated racism and sexism in America is tempered only by the near constant effort it takes to maintain those systems against a natural and constant resistance to them