……I dressed as a Native American at a red white and blue party here in Marin California? I mean is ant o go on a tirade about the massacre of natives. But everybody knows and no one cares.
I can light a cigarette by rubbing two sticks together. They cannot ignore me. I wont have to say anything. But I’ll be saying loud and clear “The Red Man is not amused by your Manifest Destiny)
My dad always brings up the fact that most of Native Americans were killed by disease and not European malice. As if that where to creat space for forgiveness since at the end of the day the genocide was not really white peoples fault. By some measures up to 90% of natives were killed by disease before and colonist contact.
Suppose I raped a bus full of kids. But afterwards by no fault of my own the bus went off a cliff. How do you think the judge would respond if I said “You’re right I did rape a bus full of kids but to be fair all those kids are dead now. Can we just let by gones be by gones and let me off scott free?
They acctually believe this was God’s plan. To build a red white and blue America. I can roll with that. I’m just saying is there anything wrong with God if he wants to manifest a new destiny? A destiny that blends indigenous wisdom with objective sciences.
Can we manifest new destiny?
Manifest destiny and American exceptionalism are just ways of saying. “Hey all you people that lack might. Fuck you. We are here to play out way of life that is incongruent with nature but it works with the traditions of empire. We know it cant last forever. That’s why we are going to Mars next”
How do you forgive Nazis?