Well, it has been awhile since I have visited with you, which I feel certain thrills some of you to no end. But events have compelled me. And the event that motivated me was not a media lie…..I can no longer be bothered with refuting outright lies, or with explaining in mind numbing detail the REAL relevance of what is reported or the absence of links between events (I hate to inform you….but Hitler’s ghost is growing weary of being compared to Trump).
No, what spurred me out of my scholarly numbness was a comment made by a person right here in the hallowed halls of Face Book. And the quote was “I don’t know why Trump supporters are so anxious for a border wall. Wasn’t it white Europeans that invaded this country and killed over 10 million native Americans?”
This is the point where I a. stick a fork in my eye, b. bang my head on the table, c. throw a running hair dryer into my bathwater.
I wonder exactly WHAT people read, or ingest, before they make such statements. I bet money that the same person that would make that statement would deny the Holocaust, and welcome the Islamic invasion because LORD KNOWS that shit couldn’t happen here.
Okay. Most historians agree that, at the time that white men from Europe first landed a wet foot on the North American beach, there were about 8 million native Americans. Some put the number as high as 10 million, but certainly the number was not high enough that white men could have killed eight million of them, thereby leaving a native American nothing more than a peculiarity. And, in the 1800’s when most of this mass murder would have taken place…..how EXACTLY would it be done and how EXACTLY would it be kept secret? We know rough casualty figures of every significant battle in the history of the WORLD……mostly from the writings of people that were there. And I am FAIRLY well read, but I have yet to find, even by accident, any reference to 10 million native Americans murdered by westerners.
So, I don’t know about you, but I sleep better knowing that my ancestors had no hand in whacking a population roughly the size of New York City (which, now that I think of it, should not be taken off of the table).
Now, on to the idea that white man was an “invader”, especially as a sovereign land. There is so much bullshit wrapped in that idea that it is tough to know where to begin. And I get it….it is preached in our halls of “higher education” (I think it is the class following the “Trump is Hitler” seminar), but that doesn’t make it right. There is no evidence that the settlers of what we know of as the United States came to the United States to spread their fanatical, “my way or the highway”, religion. Think of how mundane Washington Irvings “Tales of Sleepy Hollow” would have been if we were actually beheading everyone who weren’t fundamentalist Christians back then. And, the settlers did not come here to spread an empire. And no less a personage than Thomas Jefferson considered the native Americans sovereign nations, with domain over their populations.
In the end, the person that THOUGHT they were being profound was actually being full of bullshit. There is no comparison between building a wall to keep out a population that brings little to nothing to the table of society (unless you simply MUST have a taco made by the gardeners fifth unemployed felon offspring). There is nothing to be gained by letting in a population whose top ten list of goals includes nine entries of killing you and turning your country into a shithole.
This rant has gone on long enough….I need to find my brown shirt…I gotta go kill some native Americans…..if there are any remaining.
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