Theft is Part of U.S. DNA

Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford

27 Mar 2018

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You can’t understand the present-day United States if you don’t know its bloody history, said Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous People’s History of the United States and her new book, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment. The nation’s roots in organized theft of labor and land explains “why we have a real estate broker as president, just like our first president, the land speculator George Washington.”

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