What We Lost as a Nation: The Domestic Decisions that Robbed Us

A Note on the Audience

This section is addressed primarily to white Americans. Not because BIPOC communities don't have their own histories of resistance and harm, but because white Americans have always held the numbers and the structural power to change the system.

At every turning point in U.S. history, a majority of white Americans chose racial hierarchy over collective progress. This section documents what that choice cost. Not just Black and brown children, but everyone, including the white working class.

The question is not "who suffered most." The question is: was it worth it?