Cope vs. Hope; How I Choose to Survive America Burning
America would not exist if it weren’t for racism. Consider that.
It was white racism that fueled the mass slaughter of Native Americans, and it was white racism that figured it was OK for the visitors to shove the occupants onto reservations.
That covers the land.
It was white racism that powered the cotton industry, America’s first great economic engine which powered its ascent into the super power colossus that it is today. Of course, there would not have been a cotton industry without slavery. Which is why when you may hear some so-called radicals make the claim that America was built on the backs of Black people? Yeah, well, it kinda was.
That covers the money.
So when you combine stolen land together with free labor provided by folks who were stolen from their own land to help someone else across the ocean build up the land they stole — which makes it NOT their own land - then you pretty much have America.
OK, that’s abbreviated. I know. But that’s the basic gist of it. White people came, they saw, they stole land, and then they conquered. Then they went across the sea to steal some people who they would brutalize into turning their stolen land into their own personal paradise.
