Shaun King, here: Somehow, the United States of America wants to have all of the
ingredients for murder and mayhem, cook it at 500 degrees for a few
years, and be shocked when what comes out on the other end isn't sweet
peace and colorful rainbows. That's not how recipes work.
What you put in, combined with the temperature and time you cook it,
determines the final product. It's not luck. It's not chance. It's not a
flip of the coin. Baking a good cake is equal parts science and art.
Building a harmonious society is no different . . . . A combination of violence and new plagues killed millions of indigenous
people and they were forcefully relocated to random swaths of land that
we now call reservations. To develop the newly acquired land, the United
States forced tens of millions of Africans into slavery for nearly 250
years.
The author of the above ignores these facts: his characterization of America as a cooking stew of nothing but murder and mayhem is as off base and is his black activism. What he writes with regard to the native Indian population (anywhere from 8 to 146 million killed) is true, and, ironically, far exceeds the death toll experienced by the slave population (4,000 deaths seems to be the accepted total, but enslavement of just under 4 million blacks).
Mr. King lives in the past and camps on the atrocities of American expansionism, as if there is a single nation in this world, that did not share in similar atrocities in their developmental days. Understand, I am not making an excuse, here, but I am making the point that man's effort at national sovereignty, world wide, is an unhappy history.
Europe has moved away from its slave trade and the Inquisition. America has fought a war within itself to free the slaves, and the American Indian tribal communities, in many cases, are both sovereign and prosperous; certainly, this is the case on the West Coast of these United States.
While inequities will always exist, the atrocities of the past are no more, despite the supposed "racist police force" of the modern era.
Understand this fact, the only ethnic group rioting in the streets today, advocating for the dissolution of our local police, is the black community, despite the fact that the Irish, the Chinese, the Italians, Mexican Americans, and, the American Indian populations all suffered under a grossly unfair system, as well, even to the point of having experienced more death than the black community.
Maybe Shaun King should consider that fact that baking a cake and developing a nation are not related to any degree what-so-ever. Until he can admit this, his commentaries will continue to be the product of a misinformed mind, steeped in self-hate and just plain angry stupidity. Stop it. Everyone else has ~ editor.
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