The end of World War II gave the United States the military dominance to plunder the rest of the world. But our history shows that we have always been warlike, as we marched across the continent taking first the Native American lands and then half of the country of Mexico.

Civil rights in the 1960s took individuals like Meredith, along with groups like the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and SNCC, as well as motivated white allies and the full force of the US government to bring justice to Blacks in America. And the fight isn't over.

On the days following the collapse of our armed forces in Afghanistan, we must look at the imperial wars this country has fought since 1945. They were all based on war crimes, invasions of foreign nations without the least pretext of a military threat to ourselves.

Together, we will fight the forces of white nationalism and finally defeat the lingering racism in our shared society. We will be doing it for all the citizens of our multiracial republic, in order to make a more perfect union, grounded on justice.

Later, a declassified Kissinger file revealed that these protests had discouraged a plan by Nixon to use nuclear weapons in Vietnam.

So the expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland has happened to many religious and ethnic groups in history. None of these genocides makes the Israeli treatment of the Palestinians legal or morally acceptable.

African Americans are in a similar position today, the for once white Americans are marching beside them. It is another moment when social change is possible. Demand an end to Jim Crow policing and establish economic justice for all.

Marshall considered himself part of the white power structure in America, as did Barack Obama. Did their public service actually help Black people? Only a more honest look at the Jim Crow history of our nation can provide these answers.

When a judge learned of the Night of Terror he freed all the women. Public outrage over their treatment increased sympathy for the suffrage movement, and women won the right to vote in 1920.

The worldwide protests did not stop the war. Subsequent protests were smaller, and 15 years later the US still occupies Iraq, having killed millions in the process.