Reconstruction

In the seventeen hundreds, British colonists living in the New World rose up against their government in a war that would set an American precedent and found the country upon the basis of freedom, a principle which would continue well into its future. Yet America was flawed from its construction. It has been said that slavery was the country’s first sin, written into law by a constitution which considered an enslaved person to be nothing more than property and, for the benefit of their white oppressors in a representative standard,…

On The Presumed Right of Nations to Uplift and Civilize

  On The Presumed Right of Nations to Uplift and Civilize   Darwin theorized that species evolved, mutated to become an improved version of themselves. The finches that he studied are a famous example of this. From Darwinism came a social, humanity-centric idea that had brewed for years, but could suddenly use science as some sort of basis, twisting the evidence to fit one very specific premise: that some people, some cultures, are simply more evolved and, by extension, more apt to survive. Like a tree growing particularly vicious, invasive…