From colonial conquest to modern deportation, the labels keep changing. The protocol does not: extract from the many, protect the few, and use cruelty to control everyone underneath.
Exactly. Seeing the source changes the whole picture.
Once the machine is understood as older than ICE, the direction becomes harder to miss: control first, cruelty as the method, new names whenever the old ones become exposed.
You’re naming the American anchor clearly. 1619 is the domestic machinery becoming visible here — and 1492 is the wider colonial protocol that made that machinery portable.
I see what you mean. The machine has been here a long time. Recognize that its been here and you can see where its going.
We can stop it but we have to see its source first.
Exactly. Seeing the source changes the whole picture.
Once the machine is understood as older than ICE, the direction becomes harder to miss: control first, cruelty as the method, new names whenever the old ones become exposed.
The actual date is 1619. The Spanish have a lot to answer for.
You’re naming the American anchor clearly. 1619 is the domestic machinery becoming visible here — and 1492 is the wider colonial protocol that made that machinery portable.
Learned this in High School 86 years ago, that Teacher was “let go” silently.
I have never forgot his lesson & in my mid 90s I see this sad advance by the same selfish creatures among us. STOP!!
You named the continuity clearly: the lesson never disappeared, it just kept changing uniforms and language.
That is why 1492 matters as the anchor — the protocol keeps reproducing the same cruelty under newer labels.