You will find that the majority of Christians who live and worship Jesus in Japan actually believe that Jesus stood for all of the marginalized; the Japanese Christians I met were also part of a marginalized and discriminated against minority (the Burakumin, descendents of feudal-era outcastes). They understood that Jesus did not judge or condemn anyone for loving or for any of their expressions of love any more than did Jesus judge or condemn anyone for their caste or for the work that their ancestors did.

You will find people who welcome visitors into their country and wish to show them the sites and epics of their long history.

Believe me, the Japanese are not perfect. The Americans aren't perfect either. But spending some time in another country is definitely a way to expand one's knowledge of the world.

I love my country, the United States, for its diversity and its freedoms to express and be exposed to other viewpoints. But there are those who want to shut us off from the rest of the World. Believe it or not, the World does not revolve around the United States, as some would have us think.

You will find that the majority of Christians who live and worship Jesus in Japan actually believe that Jesus stood for all of the marginalized; the Japanese Christians I met were also part of a marginalized and discriminated against minority (the Burakumin, descendents of feudal-era outcastes). They understood that Jesus did not judge or condemn anyone for loving or for any of their expressions of love any more than did Jesus judge or condemn anyone for their caste or for the work that their ancestors did.

You will find people who welcome visitors into their country and wish to show them the sites and epics of their long history.

Believe me, the Japanese are not perfect. The Americans aren't perfect either. But spending some time in another country is definitely a way to expand one's knowledge of the world.

I love my country, the United States, for its diversity and its freedoms to express and be exposed to other viewpoints. But there are those who want to shut us off from the rest of the World. Believe it or not, the World does not revolve around the United States, as some would have us think.

I concur with much of what you wrote. However, I do wonder how with all the education that you cited, you never learned to spell or write a coherent sentence.

All of those often on Columbus Day celebrate the conquest of North America; and for those, it can often have a religious and patriotic cast: the Pilgrims and Puritans, setting “God's City” upon a “hill” – the pre-eminent and dominating high ground from which all the world is now ruled, according to Manifest Destiny.

It's another thing to be an American Indian; to be a conquered people, shrunken to reservations originally set up to be concentration camps for those slated for extinction.

It's demoralizing to be an American Indian man; America's troops roam the globe and there's no serious chance that they will actually ever need to defend the “homeland” from any of their far-flung foes conquering it or taking it over the way that American Indians had it done to them.

But American Indian men cannot defend their lost nation. No wonder that so many submerge this into becoming the ethnic minority with the greatest participation in America's armed forces: if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. In this way the sense of failure at being unable to defend one's people is sublimated.

Yet everyone is God's child. The prescription for having suffered victimization is not to victimize in turn, even in one's heart or wishes.
The victim is superior to the oppressor, until he takes up bitterness. Evil is not conquered with thoughts of evil.

What would God have us do, by the example of Jesus?

Americans who've profited from this oppression need forgiveness. They will never be whole until they realize what truly happened and how contrary to God's will it has been. For this to occur, they need to be confronted with the loving forgiveness of those oppressed, with it clearly stated what they are being forgiven for.

Many Americans are now suffering personally – financially, spiritually and in personal sacrifice in endless battles – for the wrongs that have been done. The inevitability of the consequences for what has been done that's wrong, multiply as the same errors continue, writ larger and larger. Not realizing fully what has been done, many Americans have taken the wrong lessons as to how to proceed in the future, and we compound error upon error.

America needs to listen to its American Indian voices. It needs to hear and heed their voices of forgiveness.

For it is a rare and unusual native people Americans have in their midst – a forgiving and loving people, who can model the behavior Jesus wants us all to show to each other.