The Lie That Built a Nation: Why Amerikkka Can’t Handle the Truth
- Corey Dowdell
- Apr 14
- 3 min read
By King
I was born in a nation that loves to call itself “the land of the free.” But what they don’t say out loud is who was made free, who was kept in chains, and who still carries the weight of those chains every day. Amerikka—yeah, I spelled it that way on purpose—was built on stolen land, with stolen labor, and it still runs off stolen opportunity. The truth is too heavy for them to hold, so they hide it under white lies and rewritten textbooks.
They’ll teach your kids that slavery “wasn’t that bad,” but they won’t tell them about how enslaved Africans were whipped for learning to read. Why? Because knowledge is power. And if Black people and other people of color had that power, the lie of white supremacy would collapse like the house of cards it is.
They can’t face the truth because the truth would mean giving up the fantasy that white people earned everything they have. The truth would mean acknowledging that they didn’t build this country with us—they built it on us.
Why They Paint Us as Criminals
Let’s be real: If you’re Black or brown in this country, you’re guilty until proven innocent—if you even survive long enough to get to court. The system doesn’t just lock us up, it was designed to. Just look at the data:
Black people are 5 times more likely to be incarcerated than white people.
Hispanic people are twice as likely to get jail time for the same crimes as white people.
Judges routinely hand out lighter sentences to white defendants—especially if they’re “well-spoken,” “from a good family,” or have “a promising future.”
But when it’s us? The headlines say “thug.” They dig up the worst photo they can find. They don’t care if you were honor roll, churchgoing, or just trying to get home alive. They criminalize our skin, our names, our culture—because they need to believe we deserve the pain they dish out.
Trump: The Proof of White Privilege
Then look at someone like Donald Trump. A whole felon, a man accused of rape, fraud, inciting insurrection, and straight-up lying to the American people. And still—still—he can run for president.
But if you’re Black with a felony? You lose your voting rights. You lose job opportunities. You get shut out of society. Yet Trump can get indicted, stand trial, and they’ll still call him “Mr. President.” That ain’t justice—that’s privilege wearing a red hat and screaming “Make America Great Again,” which really means “Make America White Again.”
The Excuse: “Africans Sold Other Africans”
Now let’s kill this weak excuse they love to throw out: “Africans sold other Africans into slavery.” Yeah, some tribes did. But that doesn’t make what white Europeans did any less evil. The transatlantic slave trade turned people into cattle, stripped them of names, families, language, and humanity.
That wasn’t about Africans selling Africans. That was about Europeans building a system of racialized slavery so brutal, it lasted for centuries. And they still profit from it today through generational wealth, land, and power.
Why They Fear Us
They don’t hate us because we’re violent. They fear us because we’re powerful. They know we are descendants of kings and queens, warriors and scholars. That’s why it was illegal to teach us to read. That’s why they burned Black Wall Street. That’s why they murder our leaders and infiltrate our movements. Because a free, educated, united Black and brown America is their biggest fear.
The Attack on Education
Public schools are under attack, not because they’re failing—but because they’re the one place poor Black and brown kids can rise up. So they cut funding, push underqualified teachers, and flood classrooms with police instead of counselors.
Meanwhile, private schools—mostly white, mostly rich—get more tax breaks, more resources, more opportunity. It’s apartheid with a smile. They’re building pipelines to prison for us, and pipelines to power for their kids.
Conclusion: We’re Building Our Own Table
I’m not asking for a seat at their table anymore. I’m building my own. Christine’s Heart is that table. We’re here to build generational wealth, to reclaim our history, and to teach our people the truth they tried to bury.
Because we are not victims—we are visionaries. We are not broken—we are brilliant. And we don’t need their permission to rise. Amerikka may never face its truth—but we will tell it anyway.
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