Dear Whiny White People: Great rant from a Native American Facebook friend

[theHandpuppet]

102. Actually, that's not historically correct

God knows our society is sick with racism but please don't perpetuate the mistaken notion that all white people arrived here of their own free will as voting citizens in good standing. Many thousands arrived here as forced exiles and indentured servants who, by the way, could be sold and certainly did not have the right to vote. Just because our classrooms paint all colonists as Pilgrims or founding fathers doesn't mean that was the real story, it's just the only one that was chosen as the official mythology. Little Janie Wilson probably had no idea her immigrant ancestors were sent over here with their faces deliberately mutilated and sold for $50 to some plantation owner on the Jersey shore. You'll never read about that in a history book. The point is, we all have different stories to tell and there is no single "white story" though none begins to compare with the black experience in America, not then and not now.
At a time when women's rights are also under attack and LGBTs are struggling for equality, I wonder why you would even bring up the civil rights movement of LGBTs in such a resentful way. I would celebrate any and all victories in the fight for equal rights for all citizens in this country. And I will continue to work towards that goal.