Washington’s Wilton Gregory, now the only Black cardinal in the U.S., has grown increasingly outspoken over race matters.“The Pilgrims came out of religious persecution in England. And I’m very proud of the fact that they set off to create their own independent culture,” said Seth Howland Handy, 53, another descendant of a Mayflower passenger. “But they came to a place where there was existing culture. And, you know, the history is not friendly and that is troublesome,” he said.
The soul-searching extends across the Atlantic to England, where Mayflower descendants say they, too, are trying to reconcile pride and prejudice.Vicky Cosstick, a Briton whose ancestors John Alden and Priscilla Mullins were passengers, said she’s troubled by the suffering the Indigenous people endured — but she doesn’t feel guilt.
“We were exposed to disease. We were exposed to slavery. I mean, what happened here was people who came not just for religion — that might have been their purpose of leaving their homeland — but they came here and wanted to wipe out the existence of a whole culture,” said Hazel Harding Currence, 78, of the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe of Cape Cod.
What has religion got to do with being white?
The history of white America begins with a lie. The pilgrims were not simply fleeing persecution they were fleeing a country that would not accept their religious intolerance. The pilgrims were fanatical religious zealots who persecuted others. They were the Taliban of their day.
Dumb trash article, typical of the LA Times.
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