Frank Joyce and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discuss her book, “Not A Nation of Immigrants: White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion”

This virtual event was sponsored by Cleveland Peace Action. in her book, Dunbar Ortiz debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States. She asserts that this mythology is harmful and dishonest as it serves to mask and diminish the US’s true history of settler colonialism, genocide, white supremacy, slavery, and structural inequality. In this powerful conversation, Frank Joyce, who is a long-standing anti-war, anti-imperialist labor organizer and an anti-racist, anti-White Supremacist advocate engages in a lively interchange with Roxanne on the real history of the U.S. and the current difficulties non-White immigrants face upon their arrival on these shores. Roxanne unpacks the history of the term, “Nation of Immigrants,” with the shocking historical fact that it was President John F. Kennedy, Jr. who coined the term in his book, “A Nation of Immigrants.” Frank points out that many of the non-White immigrants in the U.S. “are here because the U.S. was there [as invaders).”