America: Imagine the World Without Her
"September 11, 1777.
"My loving wife,
"these past few months away from you
and Nathaniel have been difficult,
"and I miss both of you terribly.
"We have all made sacrifices,
starting with our commander.
"We face the most
powerful army in the world.
"In our last battle we felt
the bite of their artillery."
Fire!
"But we held firm and
pushed them back.
"Our commander did not let us fail.
"We trust him. He keeps
our spirits high."
Battalion, attention!
"General Washington reminds us
"that life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness
"are our unalienable rights and we
will not give them up to the crown.
"When the war is won,
America will be the first nation
"to freely choose its own way.
"Today will be another test of our
will as we face General Howe,
"whose troops outnumber
us by the thousands.
"The American cause now rests on
providence and General Washington."
Hold the line, boys!
Hold the line!
Ready, fire!
Fire!
Fire!
Charge!
General Washington!
Fall back! Retreat!
- Advance!
- Retreat!
Fall back, company!
Imagine the unimaginable.
What if George Washington had
been killed by a sniper's bullet?
What if the Civil War had torn this
country into two or 10 countries?
What if Hitler got the
atomic bomb first?
What would the world look like
if America did not exist?
From farmers in the fields
to the tallest of the
towers that fall and rise
1-7-7-6, the names upon the list
of all the ones who
gave until they died
Don't you hold back
I can see in your mind
and your mind will set you free
Rise to the top of the world
America
America, don't you cry
Lift me up
Rise to the top of the world
America
America, don't you cry
Lift me up
Rise to the top of the world
I love America.
I chose this country.
America, don't you cry
And like millions of immigrants,
I've been blessed by my life in America.
This country does
something truly unique.
script of your own life.
A chapter of my script
was making the film 2016.
It surprised Hollywood and the
media by becoming a runaway hit.
It became the number two political
documentary film of all time.
In the film I made three predictions.
The federal government
would grow bigger
as America's role in the
world grows smaller.
Under President Obama,
the national debt would double.
This administration would
undermine our allies
and strengthen our enemies.
Seeing these predictions come true,
I'm scared for the future of America.
But I believe we can be strong again
unless we choose another path.
A century and a half ago,
issued a prophetic warning.
Shall we expect some
transatlantic military giant
to step the ocean and
crush us with a blow?
Never. All the armies of Europe,
Asia and Africa combined
with a Bonaparte for a commander
could not by force take
a drink from the Ohio.
At what point then, is the
approach of danger to be expected?
I answer that if it ever reach us,
it must spring up from amongst us.
It cannot come from abroad.
If destruction be our lot,
then we ourselves must be
the author and finisher of it.
As a nation of freemen,
we must live throughout
all time or die by suicide.
How do you convince a great nation
to author its own destruction?
You start by telling a new story.
'Cause if you got a business,
you didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
What President Obama is really saying
is that the wealth and
abundance of American life
are not earned, they're stolen.
But it's not just President Obama.
Thievery was a critical element
to the expansion of American empire.
This is a nation founded on genocide
and built on the backs of slaves.
Moving borders. They call
it American imperialism.
Obama didn't create this movement.
It created him.
Not God bless America.
God damn America.
European expansion, conquest,
colonization, genocide.
American foreign policy
has been aggressive
and imperialist for a very long time.
It was expansionist immediately starting
right after the Revolutionary War.
Incredible as it may seem,
there are people in America who
want a world without America.
Their indictments against America
start at the very beginning.
What are the words that come to mind
when you hear the phrase,
Christopher Columbus?
I know your name.
What's your unit?
Lieutenant Colonel John Fer
of the United States Air Force.
And ends 400 years later in
America with the Trail of Tears
where 18,000 Native Americans
were forced to march 2,000 miles,
leaving a third of them dead.
What words come to mind when
you think of the word "America"?
A sadness. For me,
it's just a great sadness.
I think of all the hundreds of
nations that were destroyed.
In 1845, Mexican territory
covered most of Texas,
New Mexico, Arizona and California.
I like Chicano nationalism.
culture to Anglo-Saxon culture.
And you say, "Well, why don't
you move back to Mexico?"
I don't have to. I'm in Mexico.
And like I tell my Chicano students,
maybe after there isn't a United States,
we'll still be here, like the Indians.
So to put it biblically, you are
in America but not of America.
I'm not of America, no.
Charles Truxillo is a
professor of Chicano studies
at the University of New Mexico.
He's a leading representative of a movement
trying to reclaim Mexico's lost lands.
Did the United States steal half
Yes, and the wealth of those areas.
California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas,
the oil, the minerals,
would have made Mexico
a premier economic power,
like it's becoming now.
When I went one time with my father
we were in an old classroom
and they had a map of North
America up in the classroom.
And it had the area that's
the American Southwest
from Texas to California
cross-thatched
with the colors of Mexico
and the United States,
and they had named that area
provincias perdidas, lost provinces.
They have killed us, beat us,
drugged us, knocked us and
raped us and robbed us.
Done everything but the right thing.
We don't see any American dream.
We've experienced only
the American nightmare.
We took Africans from their
country to build our way of ease
and kept them enslaved
and living in fear.
Well, obviously as a
black person in America,
it's, um, a part of the
wretched history of this nation
that my foremothers and forefathers
were not seen as fully human.
I spoke to the African American
scholar Michael Eric Dyson
at Georgetown University.
Has Obama's election
and re-election...
Doesn't that say something
about the end of racism?
I would not deny at all that American
has made enormous progress.
Are we there yet? No.
America doesn't want to confront
the vicious inequalities
that it set loose in this nation.
Absorbing things that are not yours.
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