America is not a white country

White people have no inherent right to be the dominant occupiers of America. What our ancestors took can be taken. There is no ancestral heritage, no national identity — only the struggle of the English and the French and the Spanish to take over a great largely unoccupied (to them) land. The idea of the white American ancestor is the idea of the conqueror, who took lands by force, entered into sham treaties, built the trail of tears, invented reservations, and committed genocide by infectious disease.

The idea of the white American ancestor is the slave trader, the plantation owner, the whip…