Reply #32: His essay on page 48, starts out

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"Is anyone in the U.S. innocent?" and concludes "Does the excuse that most Americans are unaware of this constitute innocence? Uninformed and intentionally misinformed, yes - but innocent?"

Belief not just in our innocence, but in our positive virtue is so deep and taught so early that if I try to argue against it I am often made to feel like a flat earther or a vile and foolish heretic. Even Perkins later writes:

"... the distinction between the old American republic and the new global empire. The republic offered hope to the world. Its foundation was moral and philosophical rather than materialistic. It was based on the concepts of equality and justice for all ..." p. 127

So America was once innocent, back when half of it owned slaves and the other have engaged in slave trading and exporting of slave produced cotton and tobacco.

I am not sure if I feel that guilt since I gave up my rather lucrative job with DOD a long time ago, and have been struggling and agitating ever since, but I still live a quite privileged life.