Mike Pompeo Doesn't Want Americans to Know That Slavery Is Baked Into the Constitution
July 14, 2021
MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH
First, let’s debunk the entire absurd and corrupt notion that Critical Race Theory is racist against whites. That’s like a murderer arguing that he is being discriminated against for being a criminal, not that I am saying being white makes one a selfish and ruthless lawbreaker, but the United States was founded by white patriarchs who basically adopted such reprehensible characteristics in the conquest of America and the institution of slavery.
Maybe that is why Mike Pompeo —who was an arrogant, thuggish defender of all things Trump when he was Secretary of State — is so horrified by the notion of re-examining the historical narrative of the United States as a nation founded on unblemished lofty ideals. Of course, that precludes incorporating the horrifying institution of slavery, which was tolerated and thus condoned by the Northern states, and the trail of tears genocide of violently stealing land from indigenous Americans that amounted, in many cases, to genocide.
The rest of what is now the United States was either won in wars or purchased from European nations who had stolen it from Native-Americans. French diplomat Alexis de Tocqueville “noted the irony of the freedom-loving nation’s mistreatment of Native Americans and its embrace of slavery.”
That Texas went to war with Mexico and became an independent Republic (in 1836) for a few years was due to Mexico not allowing slavery in the territory. The defense of the Alamo wasn’t for some noble “lost cause.” It was to keep the degradation of slavery embedded in Texas, and, in 1845, it was admitted as a slave state.
That is a key reason the far right-wing Governor Greg Abbott got a law passed to prohibit the teaching of Critical Race Theory, because as Mike Pompeo tweeted, such truth “strikes at the very foundations of our country.” This, of course, means that the best way to deal with the United States historical narrative of liberty and equality being at the heart of the American Revolution must avoid that the Constitution of the United States incorporated slavery, and its interior policy adopted the killing of Indian tribes as a necessary ”inconvenience” to establishing a white patriarchal nation, in which Christianity condoned the enslavement of “heathens,” as well as the slaughter of Indians.
What is the take-away when Mike Pompeo tweets?: “If we teach that the founding of the United States of America was somehow flawed. It was corrupt. It was racist. That’s really dangerous. It strikes at the very foundations of our country.”
It’s to endorse the big lie behind Trump’s big lie that all whites are “patriots.” However, people of color, migrants, non-gender conforming men and women and Democrats are the enemy of freedom for the white man. The big lie that Trump won the election, for Pompeo, is consistent with the self-serving myths of the white conquest of what would become the United States.
As a new nation, democracy was only for white men who owned land. In many ways, that is what Pompeo is so afraid may be challenged if we accept the original sins of America’s birth and “manifest destiny.” The white man would then have to participate in a meritocracy, not a social and economic order based on white privilege.
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