America was never white, and it never will be.

[LiberalArkie]

Events in Charlottesville recently cascaded into domestic terrorism. Three dead and dozens wounded as neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other “alt-right” members descended upon the university that Thomas Jefferson built; their purpose, it is alleged, to defend a statue – a monument – to the Confederate Civil War soldier, General Robert E. Lee. These radical rightists arrived from all across the United States upon the college town of Charlottesville to protect, in their words, their “white” heritage. Among the many problems I have with so-called “white supremacists” is their purposeful mixing of “heritage” with “history,” rhetorically pining for a once proud “white” America.

But history proves that America was never white.

That I need to make this statement, and worse, that some may take offense from it, shows the blurring rhetoric between what is Heritage and what is History. I’ll return to this later. For now, some History.

The first successful colonial holding in these current United States was Spanish, at St. Augustine, Florida, established 1565, four decades plus prior to Virginia’s Jamestown.

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https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/american-historian-busts-poisonous-myth-heart-white-nationalist-ideology

[MineralMan]

1. It was populated by indigenous Native Americans first.

White Europeans invaded and killed them or drove them into hiding.

What that article is talking about came after that initial invasion by white Europeans.

[ck4829]

2. K&R