MSNBC: Thanksgiving's About White Settlers Who Brought 'Genocide and Violence'
Brad Wilmouth
November 22nd, 2021 6:11 AM

On Saturday's The Cross Connection, race-obsessed MSNBC host Tiffany Cross served up the kind of vitriol against white Americans that regular viewers of the show have come to expect as she allowed a frequent guest to deliver a rant against America -- and white Americans, in particular -- to mark the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.

After lauding liberal Native American activist Gyasi Ross as a "show favorite," she then switched to what appeared to be a pre-recorded "essay" from him with his thoughts about the holiday. MSNBC then doesn't have to take the responsibility of questioning his inflammatory arguments.

Ross began by claiming that it is a "pathology of white America" to see their ancestors as improving North America after they arrived, he then added: "But I'm still trying to find out what indigenous people received of value. Instead of bringing stuffing and biscuits, those settlers brought genocide and violence."

Ross is also in favor of tearing down Mount Rushmore.

He invoked police-involved violence as he added:

That genocide and violence is still on the menu as state-sponsored violence against Native and black Americans is commonplace. And violent private white supremacy is celebrated and subsidized. From Stonechild Chiefstick to Mike Brown to Renee Davis to Breonna Taylor to Eric Garner, indigenous and black people are still being murdered by those paid to protect us.

Even though FBI and Washington Post statistics demonstrate that Native and African Americans are shot and killed by police officers at a rate that is proportionate to crime patterns -- including many more white people, who are rarely noticed by the media -- on screen were seen a number of victims of police shootings from those racial groups.

And even though whites commit homicides across racial lines at a relatively low per capita rate compared to other groups, he then portrayed whites as killers of minorities. It's a little odd to say the accused killers of Ahmaud Arbery aren't facing reprisal at present:

From Ahmaud Arbery to Trayvon Martin, white Americans are still killing Native and black Americans with no fear of reprisal. They brought chattel slavery to Africans and Native people that still happens through the prison-industrial complex that imprisons the descendants of enslaved Africans and Natives at far disparate numbers. That is the reality of Thanksgiving.

His complaint about the "prison-industrial complex" ignores the fact that prison incarceration rates generally line up with crime rates. In fact, Native Americans make up about 2.9 percent of U.S. residents but only 2.5 percent of those incarcerated. Additionally, even in a relatively high year (like 2017), no more than about two percent of those shot and killed by police officers are Native Americans.

The liberal activist then pushed for reparations as he concluded:

Many of us are still waiting for white Americans to bring some value -- still waiting for white Americans to match the mythology of Thanksgiving. Freedom, justice, equality, reparations for two and a half billion acres of stolen Native land -- reparations for 246 years of stolen labor -- reparations for stealing Native children. Stop the killing -- it's still happening. Stop the theft -- it's still happening. Return the land -- match the mythology. Then, and only then, we can all be equally thankful. Peace.

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