What does it matter if a handful of Black people might have been involved? It's not as it that lets white supremacy and white imperialism off the hook- it's not as if that means the white- dominated practice of treating Africans as property and beasts of burden is somehow retroactively validated.
Written by Ken Burch
Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.