If you’re not familiar with it, the picture in this post is of the Gateway Arch - though the full name of the site is the “Jefferson National Expansion Memorial”. It’s a monument to the fact that America “bought” a bunch of land from someone who didn’t even own it. Then a bunch of white people moved in and stole the land from the actual inhabitants and genocided them. This is celebrated with a massive, internationally-recognized monument and virtually no (white) Americans think this is wrong or even just weird. A embodiment of the celebration of white supremacy. Death to America.

(As an aside, I’ve been inside the museum here. They use a decent amount of floor space to talk about native Americans and even sometimes mention things about how they were killed and their land stolen. But I noticed they will also say things like “The Black Hawk War started when the Fox refused to leave Illinois.” Neglecting the fact that ALL of the treaties between the US and native Americans were 1,000% under major duress and were essentially “sign this or we kill you”. And with Black Hawk in particular, the US leveraged that threat to get appallingly lopsided terms. Like giving up half the state of Illinois to free one person from jail (who was innocent anyway). I’ve noticed that about other national parks, they all seem to refer to these treaties as perfectly legitimate - which I guess they feel they have to or otherwise they might lose their claims to the land in the present day. Quelle horreur!)