there’s a reason why the greatest contemporary minds that this world has to offer all say that the us is the biggest purveyor of violence and inequity that the world has ever seen.

here’s martin luther king jr saying so:

…I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent

he was shot and killed for it and his messages like these are ignored in schools today.