Dear Editor:
Keeping in mind the constantly changing national news – by the day or even the hour – I would like to put forth some thoughts based upon my own ideological frame of reference:
- Unless you are a Native American, you are the descendants of immigrants. When Europeans first arrived in North America (including Central and South America) they brought with them disease, pestilence and genocide. They sought only riches. Europeans seeking religious freedom arrived much later.
- Those European immigrants were not vetted in any way; many who accompanied the Conquistadors were outlaws and criminals.
- The land that we call home here was invaded with impunity. There was no consideration or conscience in the way that those peoples who lived here, worked the land here, raised their families here and died here were treated by those who felt they had the right to seize what did not belong to them.
I bring up these items as I think we should all just take a moment and pause, realizing that we, too, are the products of immigration. We are members of the human race, the most important race of all. My great-great grandmother was a Native American who married a Union soldier. Although I am 1/16 Native American, I am 15/16 Scotch and German (my Irish heritage husband says that it a formidable combination!) so I speak primarily as an immigrant descendant.
I have a suggestion for the so-called “white nationalists” … maybe they should take the Ancestry DNA test; they might be surprised and somewhat humbled when they receive their results!
Sharon McMahon
Noblesville