Hmmm so much for Colombus Day. Axe cuts and tree rings prove Vikings showed up exactly 1000 years ago. nature.com/articles/s4158…
....and those horses.....nytimes.com/2021/10/20/sci…
and those natives...ucl.ac.uk/news/2012/jul/…
By 1890 indigenous groups had been wiped out by Europeans and their ability to move erased. Smallpox also played a large part in their annihilation. Pity they don't show Canada and Latin America in this animation.
The European slave trade was a massive social reengineering process that created the Golden Triangle. Slaves- Slave crops- Processed goods- Slaves. Native Americans are now 6.79M (2%) 48.6M African/Caribe 13.4%
"African-American" is a tough label considering the gap between birth in Africa or even source of melanoma (black skin is not unique to Africa) but the term used to replace "negro" is still used to divide Americans. And frustrate identity as American. pewresearch.org/social-trends/…
They teach self identity in school. Opening up the idea that that there are many ways to self identify as an American or by sex, race, color, religion, location or even politics. That's really really bad for national psyche. fivethirtyeight.com/features/few-a…
Yet among some youth polls "Blacks" have the highest hope for America (followed by Hispanics) which adds an interesting wrinkle to the idea of hope and faith in a nation being rooted in minorities. There is a sense of optimism you don't seen in the media. iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/spr… 
A decade ago. Old rich people told us that the future sucked for the next generation. news.gallup.com/poll/147350/op…
Another 2019 indicator is that despite optimism, Americans don't look to the politicians or government to fix anything. Quite the opposite. This is telling us something. The pillars of an informed public (media) and elected officials (govt) are broken. pewresearch.org/social-trends/…
"51% say it is likely that elected officials in the US will successfully overturn the results of a future election because their party did not win." 75% of Republicans that say democracy is under attack, compared with only 46% of Democrats. cnn.com/2021/09/15/pol…
To repair this malaise our govt must show that rule of law is what gives people hope that we are a fair, honest nation in which the general public, youth, minorities and migrants can be treated fairly. It's showtime for Sloppy Steve and Liz Cheney thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-j…
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