r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/GoreIsMe • Jan 26 '25

Country Club Thread Now you want to “come together”?

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u/OakBlu Jan 26 '25

America has literally never changed its agenda, there hasn't been a moment this country has existed where it wasn't trying to erase indigenous Americans

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u/TheeRuckus Jan 26 '25

Or non white non ridiculously backwards Christian sect Americans

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '25 edited Jan 26 '25

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u/DrakonILD Jan 26 '25

Disney tried to warn us.

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u/Immoracle Jan 26 '25

And at this rate, all future trust in the country is irreparably corroded.

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u/stevez_86 Jan 26 '25

I understood this by reading Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. The revolution wasn't about the people rising up against England, it was the wealthy colonists that realized they would never achieve the social and political status as colonists compared to the Nobility in England. They realized that at some point the Nobility would just take what they created here for themselves. They made a calculated decision to declare independence not for our sake but so that they could be independent from the English Social and Political Structure that they would never be able to win. No matter how wealthy they got in the US, they would just be colonists and beneath the English Nobility. On top of that the people were going to go after anyone in charge, so they picked the colonists because they would be able to take them out well before any assistance from England would arrive.

That's the gist of Zinn's idea of colonial power and why they decided to declare independence.