Decades of abuse to the collective American mind – through schools and media distorting American history and emphasizing the worst, if not apocryphal, chapters of American history – have created a collective dissociative disorder. The American people have lost accurate memory of their own goodness, as well as the will to protect themselves from danger.
It so happened that an 11-year-old boy came home from school one day and told his parents that the first European white people who came to America were so mean that they tried to kill the Indians by giving them blankets with smallpox germs. The boy’s father tried to use this as a teachable moment. He asked his son to think if that made sense, even if the first white settlers were that evil. How would they avoid getting smallpox themselves? The boy then let it be known that the American Constitution was written by the Iroquois Indians. The father informed his son that the Iroquois did not have an alphabetic written language, so they could not have written our Constitution. The boy thought about the smallpox contagion problem but would not be dissuaded from his conviction that Iroquois Indians wrote the Constitution.
It also happens that this boy is a direct descendant of those same earliest colonials he had been taught in the public schools to despise. The miseducated schoolboy (now older and wiser) is a 14th-generation American. He descends from an Englishman who, with his wife and eight children, in 1638 sailed on the Susan and Ellen to the land that came to be called New England. The boy’s forbears established the oldest privately deeded homestead in the United States in Windsor, Connecticut. Let us hearken back to that fateful moment on the rough dock in Braintree, England and picture Joseph turning to his wife Mary, as harried husbands do when embarking with a large brood on a lengthy journey: “Honey, didst thou remember to pack the smallpox blankets?”
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