So what else new, Professor?

To someone like a historian, David McCullough,

Donald Trump probably is not a great exception to the

history of America which began with systematic elimination 

and destruction of native Indians and their culture by the European 

immigrants who were running away from their tyrants at home.

"Who said life is fair?"

Obviously, Americans need many more clones of Martin Luther King,

I suppose, to maintain some semblance of what their founding fathers

dreamt of, the most ideal democratic government human mind created

in the world history of man at the expense of so much blood for the revolutionary 

war, then the civil war, etc, to be followed.

It is a never-ending struggle, indeed. Donald and his gang surely made it a little harder,

yet in my view, it is no big deal when we compare it to the Civil War Lincoln dealt with.

You are right, doc, we all know there is no such thing as ‘idealism’ or utopia for fairness. Those are plain 'dream'. But what a disappointment, I started to have these days, to America, I chose proudly as my country!  

Such profound disappointment to accept/admit the reality- the overwhelming majority of Americans, or at least 72 million (47% of voters) peoples, are stupid enough to fail to recognize and condemn Trumpism - brought me more anger and hatred these days.

Indeed, as you remind us, these are the same peoples, only in a different generation, who proudly(?) massacred Lakota Sioux Indians with no hesitation, barely over 100 years ago- I lived 82 years so that I know how short 100 years!-. So, ‘Proud Boys’ are proud of? 

BB Lee

P.S. One of the few books I read three times is Dee Alexander Brown’s ‘Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (An Indian History of the American West). Each time I read, my blood boiled over!

One thing that I learned by reading the Pioneers by McCullough was that

there was a continuing cold war between the British and the Americans,

even after the revolutionary war was won by Americans.

The British were supplying weapons to Indians who were willing to fight

Americans so indeed Indians formed a federal army among the tribes and

ambushed and killed the American army which was poorly prepared and,

settlers cruelly by scalping, etc., which woke up Americans to revenge.

The British not only governed Canada but also controlled the entire Mid West

of America. After the defeat of the federal army of some five Indian tribes in

Mid West by a properly trained, large American Army, 

the British had to give up Mid West America at the Paris Treaty

which was the result of a tough negotiation by John Adams against the Brits.

The Indians were moved to a faraway reservation territory.

So this is how the state of Ohio and the other Mid Western states were born.

General Anthony Wayne was the general who led the army that defeated the Indian army

decisively. Wayne State University in Detroit where I was on clinical faculty and my wife

got her BFA was named after him.

All of these happened in the 1780s while George Washington was the first president of the USA.

If one feels mea culpa after whatever misdeed he has done, he could be forgiven.

But the president of the USA, who is also a white person, does something bad

and doesn't even feel mea culpa, it is a horrible thing. This is their land after all.

Now, the white people are teaching us crimes and also tell us not to be even sorry for that.

In that case, we all go out and do horrible things with no impunity.

Koreans have plenty of capacity to do things much worse than what they have done with impunity.

Koreans shall match what the whites have done. Why not?

We could do something really bad far exceeding their imagination

because we had been suffered and trained in our sad and cruel past.

We are one of the cruelest people in the world by birth and training.

At least, however, in our past, we felt guilty after having done something bad.

Now, in America, as we have learned, or the white people have taught us,

that we shall not even feel guilty about our misdeeds. That's fine with me.

We used to love and respected America as our second home

but, now, we can forget all about it, shall we ??

As Trump wanted and preached the nation to be divided into colored and white,

we can gladly handle that. Let's do it. We are supremer than the white in doing so.

We won't be the helpless American Indians or Chinese coolies of the bygone era.

The only relief or restitution of the white crimes of the last 4 years can be obtained

by putting Donald Trump, a so-called ex-American president, in front of a firing squad,

and pulling the triggers, and finishing the execution !!

Fairness never settles anything because one thinks it is fair if it works for oneself.

That's why we have a judicial system that applies the law. If American judicial 

system fails to punish Trump, I think it is the beginning of the downfall of American 

Empire. 
 

The problems that we are dealing with in the world now are caused by Europeans.

British was the worst. British helped Japan to defeat Russia. Indirectly it resulted in

the colonization of Korea by Japan. British sold opium to China and ruin many lives 

and the country. It ended the Qing dynasty and threw the country in turmoil. British 

exploited India in the name of trade through East India Co. French and British 

divided  Mideast and made countries for their own interests. These countries 

became the source of terrorism that the world has to deal with. Not to mention colonization 

of Africa and the atrocities that indigenous people have to deal with. How about what 

the Spanish did to South American Indians. 
 

Same people from Europe made a home in America at first. The new world gave them prosperity.

They have been generous because they have had enough. All of sudden, they began to feel 

not so rich. Obviously, it was their own fault, but they thought their wealth was taken away 

by newcomers from foreign countries. They thought that the US has been giving foreign aid

and other countries became richer. The US was buying too much stuffs from China and China 

did not buy enough in return. 
 

These prejudices will not go away from ex white middle-class people even though Trump

is gone. They are almost half of Americans. It won't be easy to govern for any president 

from now on. That's why Senate has a Republican majority. If the American people understood 

how bad Trump and Republican senators were, Democrats should have won the Senate majority.

Precisely, Dr. Ohn, precisely!!!

They wouldn't back down quietly. They rather woke up in a sense now, and black president Obama became the last straw to have broken the camel's back! Trump simply took the opportunity at right time.

So, such division is the price we pay back now. Indeed, there are hundreds of thousands of Trumps among 70 million MAGA people. We knew it will happen but we didn't know it would become such a serious risk to the minority. So worrying for the future of our children!

BB Lee

Addendum

The history you brought up reminds me of my first experience to encounter European colonialism through the trip to Africa to attend the World Assembly of Youth held in Ghana in 1960. A further trip through Europe and the Middle East and India, etc after the Congress gave me an eye-opening opportunity to see how much those world dominant powers sucked out the blood from the rest of the world to accumulate the wealth!

My first feeling to visit Louvre and British Museum, etc in 1960 was my deep resentment to colonialism rather than the admiration! Indeed, Zionism is also one of the British products, bringing so much misery through the innocent Palestinians, we still see, don't we?

After all, the winner writes the history, and poor weak Koreans were always it's victim, even now!  Bless poor Koreans!

BB

Doc, Koreans are not necessarily weak or poor. We should get rid of that idea.

Somehow, we have gotten into the fixed idea of inferiority and being slaves that have been

brain-washed into our minds. The whole thing originates from the Lee Dynasty and the forced

Japanese occupation when we were the helpless slaves of China and Japan.

As you see, the Moon regime is resisting the U.S. command and wants to go on their own way.

Of course, Moon seems to be a communist but that really doesn't matter

when considering if Koreans are still weak and poor. Their latest behavior shows certain

independent ideology for the first time in our history after the collapse of Kokuryo.

We are no longer in the primitive old habit and psychology of the early 20th century.

I do not necessarily agree with Moon's way but I am watching them with some kind of desperate hope, and new curiosity.  Whether they embrace the communist idea or not,

it doesn't matter for me or us sitting on the U.S. soil. Let them choose whatever they prefer.

They will suffer or enjoy the consequences.

There are not many choices for Koreans. There are only one of the three directions,

pro-U.S., pro-China, or going all alone. Just hoping that God bless them.

Perhaps, you are right, doc, but I simply turn off my brain whenever Korean things should come up either on the TV or newspaper, etc. Like Jewish saying, 'I don't want to know about it'! I had enough through my near full 10-year endurance during my stay in Seoul from 1994 through 2004 - my wife booked ONE WAY ticket out on very next day after my official retirement ceremony from the university to come back home to the States with NO chance to giving the excuse to go back to Korea!-. Though partly related to my abuse of the term they hate most, that is '조선놈', I felt they hate me as much as I hate them since I know  '조선놈' mentality than anyone else like 'biting the hand that feeds you' with no hesitation. I couldn't tolerate and was so upset about their ungrateful behaviors with full of jealousy and cursed them till the last minute I left Korea. So be it, doc! It's over, no more! God bless Koreans!

BB Lee