Fact #02: America actually began as the home of the enslaved and the land of the cowardly.

I will freely & joyfully admit that it is undeniably true that the United States still affords its people more freedoms than many other nations. It is also undeniably true that many an American has indeed performed many a brave deed over the course of his or her country’s first 200+ years.

AND it is equally true that the many of the actions of the earliest Americans were exceptionally despicable; just as it is just as true that the early American government actually carried out one of the most widespread & the most effective — indeed, one of the most evil — genocides that human history has ever known.

Now this is not to say that America is worse than any other country because of her less-then-noble beginnings, and yet it most certainly assures that she is no better.

As such, it would be wise for all Americans to regularly pause and remember these inauspicious facts whenever otherwise tempted to either criticize other nations or arrogantly feel as though their own country is in any way superior or “better than”.

Amen … Let it be so.

“Think of how it all started: America was founded by slave owners who informed us that all men were created equal … [even though] the founders themselves were a small group of unelected, white, male, land-holding slave owners who also suggested their class be the only one allowed to vote. To my mind, that is what’s known as being stunningly — even embarrassingly — full of shit.” ~ inspired by George Carlin

“To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have Soul controlled by geography.” ~ George Santayana

 

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