What If We Said, "OK"?

Reading about how someone outside the courthouse where the trial for Karmelo Anthony was going on said that the US is a racist nation and this was a war.

War?

"Don't talk at me [Sir] as if I've never seen a war!" Col. Ludlow.*

Clearly you haven't.

If this were a war, you wouldn't have gotten two words in edgewise before someone dropped a round on you.  Considering how many like minded people surrounded you, probably a mortar round; because juicy target.

There is, currently, no race war and you don't want to start one.

I keep mentioning it, you don't wanna play the Indians when Western Civ decides to solve the Indian Problem.  Western Civ will take the position that it didn't make this about race, you did, and since it's about race now it can work with that.  Less of that pesky sorting to see if it's getting the innocent with the guilty.

Speaking of guilt, Western Civ will write reams and reams about how bad that was and how sorry they are for it.  While maintaining the reservations and not returning anything conquered...

Western Civ is big on the ends justifying the means after the fact.  So many of the historians whining about how horrible a given act was almost always forget to include decades and decades of trying to peacefully live next to the, now, conquered people. 

*Colonel Ludlow did not say "sir," but considering the complexion of the person saying there's a race war going on, I have changed it because the word used could be considered a slur in this context and I intend no slur.