Almost without exception,
the storytellers—left, right, center—present a version of
the Warrior’s Quest story. In their own way, each seeks
to justify violence as
a way to obtaining peace, justice or forgiveness.
Few own their own shadow
side. Most romanticize their
own position, claiming that virtue is all
on one side and blame totally on the other
side.
In brief, they rage like
the Lone Male god and seek to exile or obliterate the
Other, while remainng totally enthralled with
their own Goodness, Righteousness or Benevolence. For
us, all who write in this manner remain mired in
a “dreadful fear” of the other.
To make your own assessment
of the presence of “dreadful fear” in these varied
stories, here are three representative interpretations.
One is from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
The next from an online source, “enotes,” written
by an academic.
The third is a newspaper account
of a radical activist’s smashing
of a statue of Christopher Columbus.
Continue—Indian Removal
