“Whites saw Indians as obstacles to settlement, not rightful proprietors. Whites possessed presumptive rights because they represented a superior civilization. Indians were merely “savages”, incapable of putting the land to its highest possible use.” “Feel-good morality tales, in which the good guys can do no wrong and the bad guys can do no right, are far from harmless. They feed the notion that one side, inspired by righteousness, possesses the right to kill. They fuel the destructive cycle of revenge, for the villainous acts committed by the bad guys must be avenged. The emotions stirred in stories such as The Patriot are elemental but base: we want the enemy to go down. Justice is achieved through killing.”
Ray Raphael, author of Founding Myths – Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past
This thought-process explains why the military defense gets over half of the US budget. The mindset of the powerful is and has always been one of conquest. They expect everyone to feel the same and fall in line. Those who whitewash history know this. It’s precisely why our children don’t learn the reality of this country’s past as teachers shovel feel-good stories about patriotism. The United States tries to deflect on every level all the shit they have done.
It’s disgusting.
The book “A Century of dishonor” by Helen Jackson. She wrote the truth. USA spend 1.2 trillion on the war machine. With no war declared. I am 1/2 Ojibwa and today the government trying to steal the lakes now.
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Thanks for mentioning that book, will check it out. Sounds like present injustices as well.
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Helen Jackson, one of my heroes. Hard book to find. I was researching “The Sand Creek massacre ” and her book told the truth.
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I will HAVE to find it now! The movie “Soldier Blue” gave me such an intense feeling of sadness and need for justice, it fueled something in me.
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Awesome post, Susi!! I so love the truth in this post!! The truth most Americans don’t want to hear or acknowledge! I love you on a Soapbox!!!
xoxo 💖💖🌹✨👍😊
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And at times, I enjoy being there, Chuck! This was one of those times. 🙂 Glad you enjoyed it!
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Awesome! 💖🌹😊
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❤️
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It is. More and more stories come out of not so
Long ago displacement and atrocities toward “the other.”
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It’s shameful.
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It really is. The beautiful Central Park in nyc displaced a community of black folks. Disgusting.
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Absolutely right.
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I wish I wasn’t!
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That’s true.
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