#politics #unitedstates
If protesting against white racism - the original sin of American founding not because of black slavery as The New York Times’ 1619 project and Critical Race Theory (CRT) argue but because of the Indian Removal Laws of Andrew Jackson which resulted in the genocide of native Americans - is MLK Jr’s communism and socialism, then one can argue that the Declaration of Independence of 1776, which wrote in the founding values of United States of America, is communism.
We all know 1776 is not communism. Why?
Because communism and socialism came more than a century after 1776, not until 1917 in practice after the Russian October Revolution, which was the communist, authoritarian mirror of the democratic American Revolution by overturning a monarchy to found a republic.
Both the United States and the former Soviet Union were always capitalist, because capitalism is about machines and automation, superseding agrarian feudalism, built on the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain which had begun in the 18th century.
The distinction between the two systems is America is a democracy and the former Soviet Union was an authoritarian state.
Racism is not about race.
Race is a part of our identity, is an important part of who we are, and none of us need to be ashamed or feel superior about our race, pure bred or mixed.
This is what 1776 was about.
Racism is about using race as power to deprive someone not of your race of something they have or legitimately deserve.
This was what the originally ratified Constitution in 1787 did to native and black Americans by depriving them of their Americanhood by law, hinging its hopes on the founding American values in the Declaration to eventually achieve the American Dream, not of great wealth by capitalism but of social equality and integration of all of the world’s races by social activism by the deprived who were not included in the original constitution.
America was economically a developing country until the end of World War I in 1918.
Any race can be racist. All races, not only whites, are racist when they acquire the power to be racist.
Only the four men on Mount Rushmore had this insight that should guide all the rest of American presidents.
Washington who had declared the First Thanksgiving in gratitude to both God and the natives and emancipated his slaves in his will despite being a Virginia plantation slave owner.
Jefferson, another Virginia plantation owner, took native help to survey America from coast to coast and wondered aloud why his black slaves could not be like the white Englishmen of the American colonies who had emancipated themselves from the British rule of fellow white men.
Lincoln who addressed America at Gettysburg invoking America’s founding values to hold the Union together.
And Teddy Roosevelt who invited Booker T. Washington to the White House.
That American institutions are racist, is therefore, not a surprise, and they need not be defended.
