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.
Stronger tribes had oppressed weaker tribes for centuries often with merciless brutality. "Manifest destiny" was an official policy of the strongest tribes, often in force be successively more and more stages of brutality and even genocide.
Almost no land was stolen from native Americans that not already been stolen from others. Stolen lands have been a very selective view of history. have.Unfortunately the White Pine Confederacy did not understand the danger of "Manifest Destiny" when the interpreted the assumed terms of their Confederacy.

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 was all possible because of coming of Columbus. Columbus and those who followed his lead may have been an answer to the prayers of those who had been brutalized victims' under the demonic rule of the Aztecs for centuries. God may have heard the cries of the oppressed and sent a people capable of answering their prayers.

Tyrants and the cure

"But killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless the people have sense, spirit and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points..."— John Adams, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government.

That "sense, spirit and honesty" would eventually come to the America "to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points that would stand against "unwarranted usurpation" and ending slavery in the land at great personal expense.

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.

Slavery may return with the covetous practices that makes men merchandise, mere human resources, returning once free citizens back to the bondage of Egypt, like the "dog to his vomit and the pig to the mire".

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 but then so are we all.

If you think democracy keeps you safe you might want to learn more about democracy.

"The mob is the mother of tyrants."— Diogenes