Did You Forget Who Built The Capitol, Did You Forget Who Perfected The Art of the Coup

Lily Orion
2 min readJan 7, 2021

The Capitol was built by enslaved hands. This is the one fun fact left out of by pundits yesterday as white supremacist fascist militia stormed the Capitol. I sat and watched the live coverage, along with millions glued to their screens in fear, in anxiety, in wonder of the whiteness on display. As we watched white men scale fences and break windows pundits were waxing poetically about the beauty of the Capitol. President Elect Biden gave his own love song to the pillar of American democracy, and all I could…

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Lily Orion

Black Disabled writer. On Instagram: @lookitslilyo & @how.it.is