The Power of Original Sin: Who’s Replacing Whom?
When we speak of original sin, it is usually related to the biblical story of eating from the forbidden fruit. From that original sin, all future sins flow according to this concept.
However, I am not referring to the biblical story but another original sin. That is the slaughter of Native Americans by white people who migrated to America centuries ago. Their land was stolen and destroyed, their children were ripped from their mothers' arms, and their culture, language, and religion were oppressed. Tens of thousands of women and children were killed and buried in mass graves.
This comes especially to mind when hearing the notion of replacement theory. Who is replacing whom? Strangely, the invaders and their descendants believe that the actual natives and other people of color were replacing them when it was the other way around.
From this original sin, all others have flowed. Not hard to see what came next; ripping Africans from their homeland and carting them off to America to become slaves.
Not a pretty picture.
In between comes the industrialization of America, the plundering of natural resources, the bringing of myriad species to the brink of extinction, and the pollution of our beautiful oceans. And oh, the air. In case it hasn't occurred to the right-wing crazies, we need air to breathe and the oxygen level in our atmosphere has dropped drastically since the turn of the last century.
But, let's not forget what's important such as the banning of a book written by a black woman or the music of Tchaikovsky, or the pouring of Stoli vodka into the streets since people think it came from Russia. By the way, it came from Latvia and is my favorite and so if you don't want it, send it my way.
Oh, and don't forget prayer in school. Maybe that's not such a bad idea considering how much sin has been committed in the name of righteousness, white righteousness that is.
But let's not forget that we are good at some things such as building bombs, genocide, and polarizing America so everyone hates and distrusts everyone else. We're also good at empowering crazies who think there are Jewish lazars in outer space or that the holocaust was the figment of a democrat's imagination.
We're good at chopping down trees, oil spills, and let's not forget guns. God forbid we run out of them; what would the gun-toting beasts do? They would have to find another hobby other than killing innocent people.
What a delightful smorgasbord of sin.
All I can say is if you are black, watch your back, if you're gay, better pray, if you're a jew hide under a pew cause they are coming for you.
Or better yet, let's give this country back to its original inhabitants. Whitey, run for your life and go back to where you came from because the natives and all people of color will replace you, and what a wonderful day that will be.