Land of the Thieves, Home of the Hypocrites

If we’re going to talk about immigrants, let’s start with the original ones. The ones who stole land, rewrote the Bible in the image and still want us to believe they’re chosen to lead.

Native Americans have been living throughout the Americas for thousands of years. Europeans showed up claiming the land and saying they had every right because they were backed by the Doctrine of Discovery. What that is, is a religious/ political claim that gave Christian Europeans the “right” to take ANY non-Christian land “in the name of the crown”. They planted flags, reported back to “the crown” and received more money, people, and troops who set up colonies. Indigenous people were forced to convert to Christianity or labeled as savages and treated like animals. If they resisted, they were killed, enslaved, or forcibly removed. Europeans brought disease like smallpox and the measles and wiped-out Native populations who were ill equipped and slaughtered the rest.

If that wasn’t enough, the colonizers didn’t want to tend to the land they stole themselves, so instead forced indigenous people to do so and later trafficked African slaves through the transatlantic salve trade to join in as well.

Colonizers renamed rivers, cities, people. They brought European languages, governments, borders, and values. Erasing the history, religion, and identities of indigenous persons. Much of like what they do today with black culture.

Colonizers call us “minorities” to keep us in a cage. To remind us that we’re lower than them. Lesser than. That they are more capable of leading because of their genetics.

They believe they are closer to God when a lot of them don’t even believe in one. The very countries that colonized the world in the name of Christianity, reject the very God they used to justify their conquest.

Colonizers always claim to be “building a better world”. When in reality it has always been about power, profit, and control. Many wars and racial systems in place today are direct result of colonization. Think about that the next time you want to call someone an immigrant.