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"Merciless Indian Savages": Cherokee Podcaster on Racist Slur in the Declaration of Independence

Ahead of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July Fourth, we speak to award-winning Cherokee author and journalist Rebecca Nagle about what’s missing from the conventional story of the American Revolution. “The last grievance in the Declaration of Independence is about 'merciless Indian savages,'” says Rebecca Nagle. “According to our founders, in their own words, the thing that they were most angry about was Native people.” She also argues that the “biggest myth” is that the founders built a democracy, “because they also built an empire,” and that the two can’t coexist. Nagle partnered with leading Indigenous scholars on a new documentary podcast called First America. The series challenges the conventional U.S. origin story by examining the experiences of Indigenous peoples, and traces how laws and legal doctrines first used to dispossess Indigenous nations continue to impact questions of executive power, immigration, xenophobia, citizenship, territorial expansion and U.S. foreign policy today. Nagle links the dark history of the United States’ founding to ongoing oppression in the country. “I would be reporting on America’s past, and then the same thing would happen in our present,” she says. “Rounding people up, putting people in detention, even shooting anybody who gets in the way, these are things that our government has done before — not once, not twice, but many, many times.”

Another Argument For Supreme Overhaul

I’m with Josh Marshall on this Birthright Citizenship decision. It’s a relief that they didn’t go completely rogue. But the fact is that four justices found that the Constitution doesn’t say what it clearly says. That’s outrageous. Kav was cute saying that he concurred only on some arcane procedural grounds that could be quickly cleaned up by the MAGA majority, but he agreed that the 14th Amendment was apparently written in an alien language that isn’t the English we all speak. The MAGA court majority don’t need no stinkin’ precedents. They do what they want. The landmark case on this question is United States v. Wong Kim Ark from 1898. In many ways it is itself the most powerful validator of the argument. That is not because it has been the guiding precedent from over a century but the simple fact that it was decided the way that it was. It is very difficult to grasp how deeply racist a country the United States was at the tale end of the 19th century, in both a “hard” biological sense as well as a looser cultural one. It is not that anti-Asian racism was worth or more virulent than other forms of racism, though that’s arguable. But it had a particular character. For most white Americans, it would simply have been obvious that of course Chinese people could have no place in America, perhaps even more than Black Americans, though of course plenty thought the same about Black Americans. They were

This should enrage every American…

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Wole Soyinka demands actionable strategy for reparatory justice

Literary icon, playwright, and Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has challenged African leaders to transcend performative diplomacy and execute aggressive, practical strategies to secure reparatory justice for the transatlantic slave trade and colonial exploitation.