Cope vs. Hope; How I Choose to Survive America Burning

Keith A. Owens
4 min readJun 1, 2020
Trying to find a reason to still hope…

America would not exist if it weren’t for racism. Consider that.

It was white racism that fueled the mass slaughter of Native Americans, and it was white racism that figured it was OK for the visitors to shove the occupants onto reservations.

That covers the land.

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Keith A. Owens

Longtime Detroit-based journalist, musician and writer. Co-founder of Detroit Stories Quarterly.