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    Our forever war: How a white male hegemony clings to power | Rebecca Solnit

    Mass shootings enforce the oppression built into America’s economic and legal systems and our history
    by Rebecca Solnit Aug 08, 2019 6 minutes
    ‘After the El Paso massacre, people are saying out loud that the president is culpable. But he is gasoline on a fire laid long before.’ Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images

    We were never not at war. By we I mean the colonizers of this continent, who waged war first against Native North America’s original occupants and then entered into a state of war to keep kidnapped Africans subjugated in slavery. After the official Indian wars ended, we found other means to keep Native people confined and disempowered. After slavery officially ended, we found other means to keep black people impoverished and disempowered. Those means were forms of war.

    We launched a war to steal Mexico’s northern half, a project completed in 1848 with the acquisition of what is now California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona (minus the Gadsden purchase), part of Colorado, and New Mexico. Texas had already been seized by dubious means, in part because its Yankee settlers refused to accept Mexican law banning slavery. Then we treated Latinx people, even those who had been here before “here” was the USA, as invaders.

    There’s a long history of massacres in response to slave uprisings

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