#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.

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…