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Ivan G Thompson
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The Making of A Great America Made in the Image of TRUMP
Religion & Spirituality
Author Insight
Whitewashing the History of America
Washington-Post-05/04/2021-Sierra Teller Ornelas Santorum..“We came here and created a blank slate, we birthed a nation from nothing,” and “there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture.” Washington-Post-05/07/2021-Vanessa-Williams “Members of Congress and former president Donald Trump, as well as conservative commentators and scholars, vehemently argued that slavery was not a defining characteristic of the country. And the White people who founded the country were not racist…much of their ire has been directed at the 1619 Project, the New York Times’ award-winning collection of stories, essays and images that examined how slavery and Black Americans’ historical fight for freedom shaped the country’s founding.” I used to be a Rick Santorum fan and was displeased when the Republican party dismissed him as part of the radical-Religious-Right. Santorum’s comments mesh with the current narrative being championed by Republicans that only white people contributed to America’s greatness. Equally disgusting is the attempt to erase the massacres of Native Americans and slavery. Was this part of the Republican party’s platform all along, and I just didn’t know it? Was I so focused on defeating abortion and “Christian values” that I couldn’t see this disturbing undercurrent of white nationalism? Thank God for President Trump. I said it. Thank God he unearthed hidden sentiments among many in the party whose flag I carried proudly for decades.
Book Excerpt
The Making of A Great America Made in the Image of TRUMP
This is an excerpt from the "Introduction"
Before America was “America,” there were “red” men, Native Americans scattered across it from east to west. In the Southwest, there were people that today were the ancestors of today’s Mexican Americans. When travel across the ocean became possible, I believe God began to assemble Europeans here. I’m writing this passage the day after Thanksgiving, November 27th, 2020. I want to focus on the picture of the first Thanksgiving. In this setting, the Pilgrims worked peacefully with the Indians while also witnessing by giving thanks to their God. I believe this picture was a prophetic foreshadowing of what God wanted to happen here in America, across ethnicities, from the very beginning.
In our rewriting of history, we want to paint the Native Americans as savages and heathens who were rescued by force from their savagery and ignorance of God. As a nation, we have forgotten that the Native Americans taught those early settlers how to thrive in an environment that was totally foreign and harsh. America would not have been possible had the Pilgrims only encountered hostile Indians in their first landings. By the same token, America wouldn’t have been possible without the arrival of the Europeans. It was this type of interaction, done in a cooperative spirit, that God wanted to model at the founding of our great nation
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