Hello everyone, can you hear me from the back?

Yes, I love you too. Okay, I’ll get straight to the point. Recently, I told my husband that over the years, I’ve noticed that the left-wing doesn’t realize that the world didn’t start in 1776. After three years of traveling around the country and facing off against the lunatic progressives, here is my scientific conclusion: they have absolutely no idea that anything existed or ever existed outside of America. And here’s a recent example.

You all remember when the left-wing, in my opinion, turned into an apocalyptic cult, constantly and inaccurately predicting that everything President Trump said or did would end America. Remember? They made another apocalyptic prediction when Iranian terrorist leader Soleimani was killed in a military strike. Remember? This was the beginning of World War I, according to their headlines. They promised us we would immediately enter World War I.

It was a memorable day because it was the day we saw Democrats and liberals, who had been calling for more feminism, more gender equity, suddenly become staunch defenders of the nation of Iran, where their constitution states that a woman’s life is worth half of a man’s, and where women are punished with up to 10 years in prison if caught without a headscarf. Suddenly, this country became the left-wing’s darling.

Of course, war didn’t happen. But amidst their frenzy, there was a tweet from Colin Kaepernick, an anti-American. The tweet read exactly as follows, and I quote: “There’s nothing new about America’s attacks on Black and Brown bodies for the expansion of American imperialism.

America has always imposed and besieged Black and Brown bodies. American militarism is the weapon that American empires use to enforce control and plunder the world of non-white people.”

Interesting, a discourse about Black and Brown bodies being imperialized—a term I have to assume Colin doesn’t know the definition or history of—was used to defend Iran. And of course, you know I’m on Twitter, I felt it necessary to gently remind Colin, of course, I’m very kind on Twitter, to remind Colin that the nation of those Black and Brown bodies was once called Persia. And sadly for his theory of the perpetual victimhood of white people, Persia was an empire, a dynastic empire for nearly 200 years, almost as long as the United States has existed. It was the strongest nation in the world, imperializing regions from Egypt to India, areas with Black and Brown people.

And while I’m not surprised to learn Colin Kaepernick has never read a history book, I would say I was shocked to know at least he hasn’t seen the film “300,” the film where Black and Brown bodies are attempting to imperialize White bodies in Greece.

 

Maybe he thinks it’s all just fiction and fantasy, or maybe Colin Kaepernick isn’t getting paid millions to tell the truth, maybe he’s being paid millions to convince Black and Brown bodies that they’re oppressed, to keep them angry, confused, and uneducated, which might explain why last Thanksgiving, Colin tweeted: “The U.S. government has stolen over 1.5 billion acres from Indigenous people. Thank you to my Indigenous family, I always stand with you.”

Holiday tweets are his pastime, because on July 4th, he tweeted: “What is July 4th to enslaved Americans?” Co-opting, by the way, this phrase from Frederick Douglas and stripping it of its original context to convey the idea that Black people owe this country no moment of celebration.

I’m talking about Colin because the picture he’s painting is clear, and I use him as an example because it fits the general opinion we see from the left nowadays. That opinion is that America is an extremely racist country, and its guilt cannot be separated from its slaveholding past.

That’s interesting because if slavery is an eternal sin of white people, why can Colin so clearly absolve that sin from America’s Indigenous people, his own family? That’s an inconvenient truth. You see, the guilt of slavery wasn’t brought to this continent by white people as the left wants us to imagine. Slavery existed everywhere in the world, including here, since the beginning of humanity.

Other Indigenous tribes didn’t sit around the fire and sigh about a flame. They were busy imperializing each other, enslaving war prisoners into labor, sometimes selling their own children, torturing others as part of their religious rites, and depending on your tribe, even cannibalism was common.

Was cannibalism forgotten in Colin’s idealistic picture of Indigenous people? Yes, before Europeans arrived in the Americas, Indigenous people regularly practiced cannibalism, most famously the Aztecs.

When Spanish colonizers arrived in Mexico City, they were greeted by piles of human bones, with over 100,000 skulls of those who had been sacrificed to the gods. In fact, in an archaeological excavation, they found the remains of 42 children, all about five years old, sacrificed to the rain god. Special days required even more sacrifices. During the dedication of the Aztec temple, they sacrificed between 20,000 and 60,000 people in a single day.

Their ceremonies, I want to paint a picture for you. The ceremonies were conducted in front of large crowds. Often, a grown male victim would be held on a stone slab, his chest sliced open, and the priests would take his still-beating heart and hold it up to the sun.

The head was then severed and placed on a rack, and the remaining body was rolled down the temple, where it was skinned and chopped into pieces, and body parts were distributed to onlookers to take home and eat.

For decades, accounts from colonists about the savage culture of Indigenous people were dismissed in the U.S. The political view was that white Europeans had to misrepresent Indigenous people to justify their genocidal expulsion. Liberals in the U.S. even went so far as to claim that the Indigenous people had lied or, rather, in a more politically correct manner, were misunderstood in their sacred texts about their cannibalistic practices, until science happened and anthropology in 2000, an anthropologist reported confirmed evidence of cannibalism in the southwestern U.S. Even the New York Times had to acknowledge the truth in an article they later deleted.

This shows that the left doesn’t understand history because, while the West, clearly, began enslaving Black and Brown people, slavery wasn’t a white invention. Not so, slavery existed before white people began it.

What’s surprising is that with all the criticism of white people from the left, no one stops to think that slavery isn’t a white characteristic and thus, it may have appeared in other cultures and its long existence could be related to something other than the skin color of the enslaved.

It doesn’t stop there. Look at other cultures, such as China, where there was a social hierarchy, in which slavery was a major part. Ancient China had social strata with layers of slaves and vassals. Meanwhile, in India, there were caste systems where the division and distribution of slaves was normal. These cultures had hierarchical and social division systems lasting thousands of years.

So, what can we learn from this? The lessons from history are complex and diverse. Differences in social systems and structures of different cultures can help us understand that issues like slavery are not new or unique to any particular culture. And what we need to do is view and understand history comprehensively and fairly, rather than relying on just a part of the story to serve our own perspective.