History will record that European whites came to America, killed the people living there, stole their land, and enslaved others. Those invaders then carried out a 300 year program of treating non-white people as inferior.
The people living in the United States of America fought a civil war after only several decades as a new nation. After the states that wanted slavery lost, they continued to fly the flag of their rebellion and created monuments to the people who had rebelled against the United States.
As they pushed west and settled on the land they stole, they confined the indigenous people to increasingly smaller land areas. Although slavery was now illegal, women and non-whites could not vote and were often treated by the law and society’s mores as inferior.
Additional upheaval occurred in the twentieth century. By now the genocide of the Native Americans was nearly complete. Despite shifting demographics that reduced the percentage of white Americans to around sixty percent, they retained disproportionate power at the local, state, and federal levels.
Non-whites were killed more often by white police officers, became sick and died from pandemics because of lack of health care resources in their communities, and were often discriminated against in less overt but no less effective ways than they had been for more than two hundred years.
And then it was April 13, 2021, and you read this.