Stop With the 9/11 “Unity” Nostalgia

America was never united — pretending we were papers over real injuries and makes addressing them harder

Tim Wise

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Image: World Trade Center in the 1970s, Mr.TinDC, Flickr, Creative Commons license

It didn’t take long once the towers had fallen and the Pentagon had been left bleeding from the gaping wound gouged in its side by American Airlines Flight 77.

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Tim Wise

Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)