Ep 27- From Minneapolis to the National Bank...wait....what?

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Ep 27- From Minneapolis to the National Bank...wait....what?

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This week in 4th Period U.S. History, we open with Minneapolis. Bovino removed. Noem removed. Public, forceful, and unmistakably clear. The rhetoric shifts fast when state violence stops being theoretical and starts affecting white, Second-Amendment-carrying Americans. This isn’t to diminish the seriousness of what happened—it’s to point out an uncomfortable truth: open-air executions, deportations of children, and the erosion of due process are not new. They are only newly visible to people who were taught to believe they were immune.

For Black and brown communities, none of this is breaking news. This isn’t a warning sign—it’s the rerun. What changed wasn’t the behavior of the state, but who finally felt it. The episode refuses to play the “this isn’t who we are” game, because historically, it very much is. Liberty in the United States has always been conditional, probationary, and selectively enforced. Some people are born knowing that. Others are just now reading the fine print.

Then we return to our regularly scheduled hypocrisy: Thomas Jefferson vs. Alexander Hamilton and the creation of the National Bank. Jefferson hated it. Feared it. Spent years trying to kill it—then immediately benefited from it to buy half the continent. Turns out ideological purity is flexible when empire is on the line. The class ends where it probably should: America doesn’t run on principles, it runs on contradictions. And the real lesson isn’t that this is new—it’s that it’s working exactly as designed.

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