Nothing built on lies lasts. Part of why our nation is breaking apart now is the lie that was not so much “slavery” but the idea that they were ever truly “freed” and were certainly never treated like “equals.” It is no different with Native Americans.
Societies fall when their untreated cancers grow too big to allow normal life to go on. There are three giant cancers that are growing within the US. The first cancer is our treatment of Native Americans. Our second is slavery and racial discrimination of which tRUMP is the current fruit. The third is the pseudo-slavery of the millions of undocumented immigrants brought across the border, worked “under-the-table” often in illegal forms of indentured servitude – often flat-out trafficked – upon whose backs the recent spurt of wealth in our country was built.
Until we confront and “treat” all three of these cancers, our country stands to die.
There is a fourth cancer that is beginning to attack now that the body is in a weakened state. That is the cancer of Islamaphobia. Finally, there is the very slow-growing cancer that should be easily treatable, and that is sexism. While slow-growing, it contributes substantially to the weakened state that allows the others cancers to take hold because it implants a basic acceptance of the concept that all people are not equal – that men are better – and that is the main disease that gave rise to the concept that WHITE men are “best” of all.