still, very america

Peo­ple are clutch­ing their pearls over the – ball­room?

It looks more like the park­ing garage for the Emer­ald Queen Casi­no in Fife than it does a ball­room. (I know it’s not fin­ished, I don’t care.)

Any­way – why? 

Yeah it sucks, our tax­pay­er dol­lars are fund­ing it and it’s os­ten­ta­tious, ugly, and ridiculous. 

But isn’t that America? 

Over a span of al­most fif­teen years we de­stroyed the Lako­ta Tribe’s Tȟuŋkáši­la Šákpe Pahá (Six Grand­fa­thers) by chis­el­ing the faces of two slave own­ers, the spouse of a slave own­er, and the son of a slave own­er into the rock.

And yeah I looked it up – all four of those men ei­ther owned slaves or were di­rect­ly con­nect­ed to peo­ple who owned slaves. But IDGAF if they were Je­sus, Bud­dha, DaVin­ci, and Pe­dro Pas­cal, we had no busi­ness de­stroy­ing sa­cred in­dige­nous land. 

And we’ve been do­ing this shit for a very long time. Oth­er than the fact that this mon­ey could be used for some­thing bet­ter, IDGAF. 

We’re tacky and we’ve al­ways been tacky. Still. 

Again, very Amer­i­ca. This en­tire coun­try is built on blood and bones. 

 

—emi­ly duchaine

Flom­mist Emi­ly Duchaine lives in the Pa­cif­ic North­west. She likes to drink mead, learn about sharks, and lis­ten to the Talk­ing Heads. She pre­tends to be a pro­fes­sion­al busi­ness­woman most days. Copy­right © 2026 Emi­ly Duchaine. Pho­to­shop­pery by mehallo.

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