#TheBigwhiteLie and the so called "Indian / Native American"
Since Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben and Eskimo Pie have all been exiled, it's time for the Redskins to join them.
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In the book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence, the authors make the point that “violence, empire, genocide [of the indigenous people of this country], slavery, dispossession, and [#TheBigwhiteLie]* are not aberrations of the U.S. nation-state but central to its very identity and structure.” *the authors used the ws-term, but I inserted #The…