It is an indictment of this country that there are few things more American than a mass shooting at a Super Bowl parade.
We are caught in this numbing cycle of tragedy because this country reveres the gun.
As sociologist Orlando Patterson wrote, 'The quintessential American myth is that of the cowboy. Central to that myth are the role of violence and the reverence for the gun. This violence is embraced and romanticized.'
Indigenous team names and mascots derive from celebrating the 'savagery' of Native people-as if they were jaguars, lions, or wildcats.
[
add
]
[
|
|
...
]