Techlife News - USA (2020-06-06)

What does the United States of America mean?

Perhaps it’s Storyline No. 1: Americans are part

of an epic tale of equality, of optimism and

trajectory, a steady path toward prosperity that

includes everyone from the melting pot working

together to form a more perfect union. Its best

days are still ahead.

Maybe it’s Storyline No. 2: The United States

was brutal, unfair from the get-go, colonized by

quarreling white European factions that shared

little but a tendency to overrun indigenous

cultures and hold human beings as property. Its

best days, if there really were any, are receding.

THE AMERICAN STORY, SPLINTERED, AND THOSE VYING TO TELL IT