A Brief Racial History of the United States

17th Century: The pilgrims fled persecution in the United Kingdom so that they could have the freedom to persecute the indigenous people of a new land.A Brief Racial History of the United States17-19th Centuries: These “Americans” trafficked in African people so that they could build great homes and cities, including the vaunted Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.A Brief Racial History of the United States19th Century: The complete eradication of all 562 Native Americans tribes – as many as 17 million indigenous people – was all but complete. A Brief Racial History of the United States20th Century: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King was assassinated when he challenged the insidious practice of economic racism, common throughout the country.

A Brief Racial History of the United States

21st Century: No one wants to talk about any of it.A Brief Racial History of the United States

What if the NRA was the NCWA?

As much as the people of the United States might like to focus on their guns, let’s not forget that chemical weapons are also part of an historic past. smallpox blanketsSmallpox-infected blankets were given to Native Americans as part of a virtual genocide in the 18th century. The U.S. government is also known to have used chemical weapons in World War I, developed a biological weapons project under Franklin D Roosevelt and doused pretty much all of Vietnam with Agent Orange. And then of course there’s the use of nuclear weapons.

And so…what if the United States government had decided that chemical weapons were worth the amendment, and not guns, in 1791? A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear chemical weapons shall not be infringed. second amendmentIs this what they would be fighting for now? Would it be the National Chemical Weapons Associations (NCWA) rather than the National Rifle Association (NRA)? dont dialWould mentally crazed individuals be running through campuses spraying nerve gas? Would so many others be collecting various strains and keep them loosely locked in bedroom closets? And would the U.S. government send aid to Syria, in the form of canisters, when people were killed by gunfire instead?0222-syria_full_600