America's Game> "Cowboys & Indians"

To this day we Americans' glamorize the Cowboys' macho image. Goodness sakes, when the horseless carriage became our travel mode replacing the horse, we just had to identify our motor vehicles' strength in terms of 'horse power.' And to this day, some cowboys driving their Ford Super Duty 475 HP Truck are compelled to attach a set of metal "balls" to the wagon-hitch-knob as a sentimental remembrance of "Old Paint," if not to suggests their own personal endowment.

White Europeans came to North America as uninvited immigrants. They immediately decided that the land of plenty (spacious and blessed with Natural Resources) must be theirs not that of these savages who spoke some foreign language. To accomplish this narcissistic manifest destiny, those white settlers cheated and slaughtered the 'dark skinned' indigenous Red Skin. people. Readers: Can I get an "Amen" for the formation of a Christian nation? Ah, come on! AMEN! The reality is the United States government authorized  over 1,500 wars against Indians and consequently reduced the Native American population from approximately 7 million to 238,00. My fellow Americans that's called genocide, you know the killing off of a particular group of people. It's usually found in one of those "shithole' countries we don't like.

America's  longing for the cowboy times is alive today. When the 21st century American cowboy protests, he shows up in public dressed in military fatigues armed with assault weapons much more  than yesterdays six shooter. We observe the cowboy philosophy with 'some'of our law enforcement  officers. The Sheriff's posse no longer lynches dark skinned people at the edge of town but they instead  shoot them in the back as the 'black man' runs for his life or the cowboy hogties the victim and applies pressure force to the victim's neck killing the modern day 'savage.' Readers: "Liberty and Justice for All?" How about now? Can I get and "God Bless America?" And perhaps a "God Forgive Us?"

Funny how we white folks enbrace and cheer our black athletic heroes who win Olympic Gold, score Super Bowl MVP awards, slam dunk, hit grand slams and wow us with song and theater performance but we will not speak out against injustices suffered by these brothers and sisters. Most people who read this feel exonerated simply saying, "I'm not a racists." Perhaps they are not racist.  But have they considered being an active anti-racist, which could become part of the solution to our beloved nation's greatest problem?

I'll end this blog pointing to whites once again benefitting from Indians. My daughter's family lives in the affluent Nortwest Suburbs of Chicago. My grandchildren in that area attend a school that spends $18,000 per student annually compared to the Illinois average of  $14,000. Well, as this school year was shifted from building attendance to online education due to a pandemic you would think  homework was increased. My daughter told me that some teachers really loaded up on the homework and damn if the increased work load wasn't caused by India childrens' parents who were calling the teachers and complaining that their kids were NOT being educationally challenged with enough work. There's Hope Folks! We just might see a white kid winning a spelling bee constest in the future!