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Judi Lynn

(160,530 posts)
5. Hearing about large population centers came really late for me, too.
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 02:52 AM
Sep 2020

I think most serious investigation regarding any of the indigenous people in the Americas was not important to most European descended people as they were raised with the deeply ingrained ignorance and racism of those who preferred to disrespect ALL indingenous people from the first, opting to follow the ancient hatred in place from the first, when their ancestors chose to torture, murder, shun, devaluate them in order to steal their country, destroy their culture instead of treating them with ordinary human respect.

I think the "white" population has been as happy as clams imagining there was nothing of value about them, and they weren't bright enough to do anything but fight, making them great guys to destroy in the relentless movement west.

They couldn't slow down until they controlled everything.

I am certain that there will be an enormous body of discovery of native people and culture, the further away our "scientists" get from their systemically manipulated prejuidices.

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