Why America Needs Its Own ‘Godzilla’

Time to face its history and start fresh

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As long as America, and Americans are brainwashed into believing America is absolutely great and absolutely exceptional, it can never start fresh and move forward.

From a country built on chattel slavery, genocide, and white supremacy, it has, at times, sought to repair itself.

But, the country needs something bolder now. Something that will set a new path. Something that will symbolize flushing of that history that divides the nation.

America needs a Godzilla.

“Godzilla,” to the Japanese people, represents their fall and then their rise. Godzilla is nuclear destruction. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The total annihilation of their country as they knew it.

Japan was a proud and powerful imperial nation at the time. It roughed off a lot of other nations. It had aspirations to be a world empire.

Then, it was knocked into oblivion. Two of its cities were laid to waste. The U.S. became the world’s global empire and it has remained mostly that way since those days in August 1945.

Eventually, Japan recovered and became a different society. “Godzilla” was a big part of that. Here’s how writer, Kimmy Yam described it in an article she…