Template:The Nativity of Oppression

The Nativity of Oppression

This is an example of racist hate speech produced by groups like the SanCopha League who would be better off listening to men like George Washington Carver and Booker T Washington. Many native Americans were murdering, raping, and enslaving each other long before the European arrived. Some had policies of oppression and even human sacrifice. Many Native American tribes such as the Creek and the Choctaw were slaveholders. Tribes such as the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Catawba, and Creek tribes fought on the Confederate side.

The desire to divide people by race, describe the character or morality of people by race, or organize people in some form of intersectionality by race is racist. We can and should only measure and judge individual people according to their present character and personal deeds and past actions if we truly desire equality.

The historical fact is some European whites protected, defended, and befriended native people and some also abused them. But it is also a fact that some native tribal people were killing, invading, enslaving, raping each other from one end of the Americas to the other while there were also good moral native Americans who were more than worthy of our praise and gratitude. Some of the white settlers and native Americans, African people were both good and band or righteous and wicked or moral and evil within the same lifetime.

Dividing good and evil by race is the definition of what a racist does and that is both unproductive and a snare of the heart.

The Aztecs as a nation were killing and enslaving people by the tens of thousands because they had the power to do so until the Spanish came with more power and aided some freedom fighting Aztecs and their neighbors in overthrowing that brutal regime. This as all possible because of Columbus, who may have been an answer to those brutalized victims' prayers.

Each generation, each man and each woman must guard themselves against the spirit of lies and prejudice which leads to tyranny. Even a modern voter in a democracy may have the seed of tyranny growing in their heart when they wield the power to oppress their neighbor and force him to pay for the benefits they want.

Columbus is dead. He has crossed the great divide that we all encounter sooner or later. Was he Saint or sinner? Probably a little of both from time to time.