Is the United States a failed nation? — COVID in Native American country

© 2020 Peter Free

 

13 May 2020

 

 

A bigoted, failed nation?

 

Ireland sent the Navajo and Hopi Peoples $3.6 million recently to help them cope with COVID-19. The impressively large donation is reciprocation for an 1847 Choctaw potato famine gift.

 

Irish generosity would not have been necessary, if the United States cared enough to take care of our own people.

 

Equally telling, Doctors without Borders recently sent two medical teams to help New Mexico's Navajo Nation to help them cope with COVID-19.

 

And in South Dakota, Governor Noem is feuding with the Sioux Tribes in their efforts to protect themselves with COVID checkpoints.

 

The Cheyenne River Sioux and Oglala Sioux Tribes know perfectly well that if COVID comes to them in droves, no American agency is going to do 'squat' to help them. Witness the Navajos' situation.

 

And evidently, the core of the South Dakota Governor's plan for COVID is to get out of the virus's way.

 

 

The moral? — Incompetent, bigoted, failed

 

Talk about squandering an American historical heritage that, at least occasionally, had arguable merit.

 

Today, our former slave-owning side seems to describe us most accurately.

 

Enslavement and casually imposed death are Avarice's inevitable endpoints.