Rising
racial tensions this year
throughout America, El - Amin says, «reinforce the significance of schools and educators being able to prepare students of color to survive, thrive, and deconstruct a racist society.
They have been constructed
throughout America's history since the end of slavery by a nervous ruling class afraid of
racial tension and the power that exists in alternate histories.
[1] Read against the traumatic history — and current iterations — of
racial terror, state violence, and surveillance leveled systematically at Black Americans
throughout our nation's history, God Bless America's synthesis of flickering and fragmented sound, song, and image gives form to the restless, beautiful, subversive vibrations and
tensions that underpin Black dissent in the era of Black Lives Matter.