Martin Luther King spoke about the moral arc of the universe being long, but that it would eventually bend toward justice.
He might have gotten it wrong. Seems like moral America is not on an arc but is merely coming full circle.
Whites acquired this country through murder, armed robbery and fraud. (Face it. If you didn’t pay for the land, you stole it.) Then they soothed whatever conscience they may have had and justified their actions by claiming a godly mandate of Manifest Destiny. (I assume their god put the natives and the Mexicans there so the Chosen ones would have something to kill as they swept westward like a plague of armed locusts.)
They enslaved black people (who built the lower half of the country for free) who were then given the names of their captors when they were eventually “freed,“ but still weren’t free.
They conducted an almost successful genocide of the native Americans. (A few survived.)
And once they settled in they set about polluting the air and the water. They refuse to recognize the error of their ways, their original sin, or to make amends. They cling tightly to their lingering superiority.
I don’t see where we’ve gotten anywhere.
Manny Garcia, Salt Lake City
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