The Race, Start, and Finish Line in U.S. Society

The United States represents race, winners, and losers. The meanings of those ideas get confused, but they are very clear to anyone who studies the patterns and fabric of America. COVID-19 changed everyone’s focus, and stopped the world in the middle of the race. In the USA, the coveted race is ‘White,’ and the capitalist model demands that everyone live a certain way. The American Dream was not necessarily about being wealthy, as much as it was about having a fair chance to create a comfortable life through hard work. That is the ideal. The reality is a little different.

COVID-19 signals a turning point in history. Financial uncertainty does not tell the whole story. Something else is more significant. An article published in Rolling Stone magazine, “The Unraveling of America,” dated August 6, 2020, by Wade Davis explained why. Wade explained that the turning point we have witnessed with COVID-19 is, “… the absolutely devastating impact that the pandemic has had on the reputation and international standing of the United States of America.” The U.S.A. exposed its citizens as members of an illusion; a failed state, and governmental incompetence, as China was depended upon for basic supplies. The USA chased profits and outsourced essential supplies to the delight of corporate boards who thought capitalism was a synonym for corporate “greed.” A massive U.S. military force had no answer for the microscopic COVID-19.

The full story had not been written. The gap between the haves and the have-nots continues to widen. The group who worked to build the nation have never been actual citizens, which is evident in the how government treats them. U.S. prosperity never thought to pause and make sure American Descendants of Slavery were compensated and protected.

The collapse of America is being predicted and seems very likely. Not a total collapse, but the end of what is was, signaled by the amplification of was accepted globally. White Supremacy, Imperialism, and Colonization. The Atlantic published a story titled, “The Decline of the American World,” June 24, 2020, by Tom McTague, where he explained how, “In Belgium, protesters targeted memorials to Leopold II, the Belgian king who made Congo his own genocidal private property. The spark may have been lit in America, but the global fires are being kept alive by the fuel of national grievances.” COVID-19 put the brakes on everyone’s lives and magnified what we work through, in the pursuit of our own ideas about life and what it means.