Wealthy white men are still the power brokers in America | PennLive letters – pennlive.com

Americas two-fold original sin began when the white plague, our European ancestors, first set foot on the North American continent. Beginning with the settlements of Jamestown in Virginia, and the Bay Colony in Massachusetts, it was open season on the tribes inhabiting this land for more than 10,000 years.

Current archaeological evidence suggests that up to 70 million original people perished between 1604 and the late 1800s. Thats quite a record for a civilized, Christian society. But thats only half of our national original sin. The other half, of course, was slavery.

In less than one generation (1604-1619), our European Christian ancestors systematically murdered, poisoned (smallpox) and starved one native culture, and enslaved another.

The same brutal forces of greed and exploitation that shaped early American policies are still present in American government today. Although America never had a king or a royal blood-line, we have always had a ruling aristocracy of land owners, bankers and entrepreneurs.

American government today reflects those early colonial traits with the aristocracy of corporate titans and scheming banksters enslaving the entire working class of America.

Todays workers are no more than indentured slaves to the wealthy bankers and corporations that refuse to pay a living wage. It is far easier to steal from the working masses when our government is owned by the aristocracy (fascism defined).

Our Black brothers and sisters knew more than 400 years ago that the laziest people in nascent America were wealthy white men. The more things change, the more things remain the same.

Peter Mazurkiewicz, Beaver Springs, Pa.

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