When European settlers cane to this land in 1620 they came across the indigenous people, people who helped then survive the first harsh winter the passengers of the Mayflower would face. Years later those same indigenous people would be called savages and the newly formed American government would over a period of years force the native people off of their land, move then to reservations, then move them to smaller reservations that offered less resources for them to survive. Today some Native people suffer from high unemployment, and high rates of alcoholism. We were wrong, they were not savages, but they were not like the white European people that were coming to this land on droves. We got it wrong and we realized we made a mistake.
While we were busy kicking the native people out of the way, we were also busy importing African's to be used as slave labor. After oppressing a massive number of people for free labor, this country was divided in half and after a 5 year battle, slavery was abolished. But it was not the end of racism against the slaves, or their descendants. White people had many terms for slaves and black's in America and some of those terms were hateful. We were wrong, they were none of those things, they were just not like the white members of society. We got it wrong and we realized we made a mistake.
In the 50's and 60's interracial marriage was prohibited by law on some states. We were wrong about that one too, we made a mistake. Could you imagine that telling someone today who is white or brown or yellow, that they could not marry someone of another race or color? But some people want to do that with another group. Needing another group to put down, focus was placed on gay people who want nothing more than to share in the same rights as all other people, to legally marry the person in life they love. Do we really have to go through the same experience one more time before we realize that we got it wrong and have to fix it? Take religion out of the equation for several reasons. The first being that we should have a separation of church and state in this country's laws. There should be no laws passed based on what the Bible, or the Koran, or the Torah say. You want to bring in religion? Go read Genesis chapter 19 verse 8 were Lot is willing to give his two virgin daughters to the townspeople to protect the guest in his house, or Genesis chapter 19 verse 32 where Abraham's' two daughters have sex with him after getting him drunk just so they can get pregnant by him. Yes, lets leave religion out of the equation.
What will we get wrong and have to fix next?
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