I would write it so that at the same time that our school children are learning the difference

between a state and the federal government and the difference between the judicial branch

and the executive branch, that they understand what a tribe is, what a contemporary Native

nation is, and that it is a level of government here in the United States today that a lot of

people don't really understand.

Hello and welcome to Wise This Happening With Me, Your Host Chris Hayes.

You know, a lot of conversations over the last year or last nine months since the death

of George Floyd have talked about this idea, which I think is a really important one.

It's almost become like a little bit of a cliche just through overuse of a reckoning,

American reckoning, reckoning with our past.

And I think the idea there is a really profound and powerful one.

You know, in our interpersonal eyes, we might have unresolved injuries.

We've caused other people that are unaddressed and sublimated and they can have all kinds

of really bad effects on those relationships, familial relationships, relationships with

our romantic partners or with our siblings or with friends, you know, friend relationships

in which there's an injury that was never quite addressed and that injury festers.

And I think part of the framework that has been applied to when we talk about particularly

the relationship of America to its African American citizens is about this sort of, you know,

original injury of slavery and then the continuing injury of Jim Crow and segregation and

racial discrimination and white supremacy.

And the reckoning ideas that like you can't just sort of move on or, you know, just keep

going and then and expect things to get better without addressing it.

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