Red Woods
I am a European American citizen. I say citizen but though it is legally true, I do not consider myself an American. From my point of view, the only true Americans were the ones who were already here when my European predecessors arrived on this continent. I struggle to live with the legacy of what my ancestors did to wrestle this land from those people and the indignity and arrogance of us now claiming it as ours. Not only that but for us to have the audacity to tell more recent immigrants to “go home” is humiliating. And to further our disgrace, we plundered the natural treasures of this land and even enslaved other people and brought them here to do our work for us. And now we think we can claim the inheritance of their work? Their land? And bully the rest of the world to follow our example?...