Reading the first two chapters of Richmond’s Unhealed History certainly has been eye opening. In Arkansas, on school wifi or devices anything related to Native American’s in ANYWAY is blocked. I have had to learn to educate myself about our history through other routes, but I certainly was not aware of the extent to how gruesome and disgusting colonists were. It is so interesting how colonizers used religion to justify genocide, slavery, killing, etc. I was just reading about how colonizers and South America said they had the right to go to war because it’s what God wants.

It is so interesting how to this day people abuse religion for power, or justify discriminating against others because it is in the bible, or is what God would have wanted…

Even though it is so disturbing, I am excited to keep learning about Richmond’s unhealed history, and learning more accurate depictions of colonization and how this country and city came to be.