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AMERICA’S ORIGINAL SIN NEVER ENDED!

23 min · 23 de jun de 2026
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This week on The Voice of the Resistance: AMERICA’S ORIGINAL SIN NEVER ENDED! There are moments in history when a nation is forced to look into a mirror. Not a flattering mirror. Not a patriotic mirror. Not the carefully polished mirror politicians hold up during election years. The real mirror. The one that reflects every scar, every lie, every act of cruelty, every grave we tried to hide beneath a flag and a pledge of allegiance. Tonight, we’re looking into that mirror. And what stares back is not freedom. It is Tulsa. It is internment camps. It is stolen land. It is broken treaties. It is lynching trees. It is segregated schools. It is women treated as property. It is gay Americans told they were criminals, sinners, and deviants. It is Indigenous children ripped from their families. It is Japanese-American citizens locked behind barbed wire. It is disabled Americans institutionalized and forgotten. It is Black families denied loans, denied jobs, denied justice, denied dignity.

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AMERICA’S ORIGINAL SIN NEVER ENDED!

This week on The Voice of the Resistance: AMERICA’S ORIGINAL SIN NEVER ENDED! There are moments in history when a nation is forced to look into a mirror. Not a flattering mirror. Not a patriotic mirror. Not the carefully polished mirror politicians hold up during election years. The real mirror. The one that reflects every scar, every lie, every act of cruelty, every grave we tried to hide beneath a flag and a pledge of allegiance. Tonight, we’re looking into that mirror. And what stares back is not freedom. It is Tulsa. It is internment camps. It is stolen land. It is broken treaties. It is lynching trees. It is segregated schools. It is women treated as property. It is gay Americans told they were criminals, sinners, and deviants. It is Indigenous children ripped from their families. It is Japanese-American citizens locked behind barbed wire. It is disabled Americans institutionalized and forgotten. It is Black families denied loans, denied jobs, denied justice, denied dignity.

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