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Institutional violence in America is a manifestation of America's ideology. It's become not just a part of American culture but the defining  characteristic. In America, might makes right, therefore those who are in power get to determine what justice is, leaving the rest of us to grapple with fundamental questions. If a law is unjust, must I still obey? Or worse, whenever I had to impose an injustice upon another, or have an injustice imposed upon me, even our struggles are an effect of America's culture of violence. The chokehold that killed Eric Garner and the knee that killed George Floyd weren't technically illegal, but they should have been, the same way that lynching still hasn't been designated as a federal hate crime or an act of terrorism.Sometimes we tend to forget that we're not really so far removed from slavery. My grandmother recently passed away; she was born in 1925, which means that her grandmother was likely enslaved and forced to endure the most heinous forms of American violence on record