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In the post middle ages era, the latter half of the 15th century to the 1870s were devoted to wresting the western hemisphere from the indigenous populations by force, primitive and largely bio-warefare, exploiting local divisions, bribery, and by subterfuge; breaking treaties, failure to enforce the law, in the example of the Cherokees. Exploiting local division was not exclusive to the western hemisphere, the result of it on the African continent was a steady supply of "product" for a slave trade that flourished internationally on North American demand for two centuries, ending in the early 19th. All of these offenses were sanctioned, even encouraged by christian beliefs, goals, leadership.
Unfortunately, the rest of the world has not exactly been a model of inclusion, as far as gender and racial equality or respect of indigenous inhabitants not considered civilized.
The dominant white males of the British Colonies did, in control from July, 1776 until April, 1865 achieve unprecedented accomplishments we are both preserved and constrained by, today. In those 89 years, they drafted an historic and enlightened Declaration of Independence, fought successfully against the world's most powerful military, twice between 1776 and 1815, and drafted an historic and enduring compromise, the Constitution of the U.S., and its model protections against government abuses enshrined in its Amendments, and then fought a bloody civil war to correct a defective compromise, slavery, but a bad compromise, along with the senate small states representation, that nonetheless had made that Constitution and the Union, possible in the first place. Slavery was abolished, Lincoln was murdered by those who objected, and the present 155 year ordeal of "more negative than positive", white American male dominance began.
A saving grace, if there is one, is the ability of some white males to not feel too defensive to avoid being self aware, introspective, empathetic, conciliatory, and willing to admit that, by their commitment to keeping everyone else down, cutting off paths and opportunities for everyone else to achieve their full potential, a slight majority of the population was prevented from voting until 1920, and it wasn't given to them even then, they demanded that right, and seized it, with considerable support of less defensive, empathetic, white males.
The U.S. proceeds now into a period of "hissy fit" promising to be much longer, more intense, violent, and damaging to the interests of the whole country, than was showcased by birther movement, as it is looking more and more likely the white male majority is about to be stripped, by the voting majority of political power at a level it may never possess again, that has been wielded malignantly selfishly.
Trump's judicial appointments reflect a serious lack of ...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...d-judiciary-lack-diversity-column/5357852002/
Jul 3, 2020 None of his 53 confirmed appeals court judges is Black. Not a single one. That makes Donald Trump the first president since Richard Nixon to go a full first term without selecting a Black nominee ...
All three SCOTUS nominees are white Roman Catholics and the most recent, although a woman, is expected to support the interests of white christian males, at the dramatic expense of everyone else, including herself!
www.nytimes.com
The gender gap probably deserves another name.
By Michael Sokolove
Unfortunately, the rest of the world has not exactly been a model of inclusion, as far as gender and racial equality or respect of indigenous inhabitants not considered civilized.
The dominant white males of the British Colonies did, in control from July, 1776 until April, 1865 achieve unprecedented accomplishments we are both preserved and constrained by, today. In those 89 years, they drafted an historic and enlightened Declaration of Independence, fought successfully against the world's most powerful military, twice between 1776 and 1815, and drafted an historic and enduring compromise, the Constitution of the U.S., and its model protections against government abuses enshrined in its Amendments, and then fought a bloody civil war to correct a defective compromise, slavery, but a bad compromise, along with the senate small states representation, that nonetheless had made that Constitution and the Union, possible in the first place. Slavery was abolished, Lincoln was murdered by those who objected, and the present 155 year ordeal of "more negative than positive", white American male dominance began.
A saving grace, if there is one, is the ability of some white males to not feel too defensive to avoid being self aware, introspective, empathetic, conciliatory, and willing to admit that, by their commitment to keeping everyone else down, cutting off paths and opportunities for everyone else to achieve their full potential, a slight majority of the population was prevented from voting until 1920, and it wasn't given to them even then, they demanded that right, and seized it, with considerable support of less defensive, empathetic, white males.
The U.S. proceeds now into a period of "hissy fit" promising to be much longer, more intense, violent, and damaging to the interests of the whole country, than was showcased by birther movement, as it is looking more and more likely the white male majority is about to be stripped, by the voting majority of political power at a level it may never possess again, that has been wielded malignantly selfishly.
Trump's judicial appointments reflect a serious lack of ...
Jul 3, 2020 None of his 53 confirmed appeals court judges is Black. Not a single one. That makes Donald Trump the first president since Richard Nixon to go a full first term without selecting a Black nominee ...
All three SCOTUS nominees are white Roman Catholics and the most recent, although a woman, is expected to support the interests of white christian males, at the dramatic expense of everyone else, including herself!
Opinion | Why Does Trump Win With White Men? (Published 2020)
The gender gap probably deserves another name.
By Michael Sokolove
- Oct. 23, 2020
"If we look more closely at it, the gender gap probably deserves another name: It’s the white male gap. Or the white male problem.
Think about what the political map would look like if just white men voted.
We’d have a Senator Roy Moore representing Alabama, where 72 percent of the state’s white male voters (and 63 percent of the white women) cast their ballot for a man who was accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl — and who faced sexual misconduct allegations from multiple other women related to incidents they said occurred when they were underage. (He has denied the accusations.)
We’d likely have a Senator David Duke from Louisiana. The entire U.S. Senate would look far different — with Democratic senators from just a handful of the bluest states. And there would never have been a President Barack Obama...."
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