Why is it that when humans see a class lower than them or different than them they feel the need to look down on them? We all do it at sometime or some point in ours lives just out of being human. But, this human reaction becomes dangerous when it gets to the point where instead of talking down on them we try to change them for the “better of man kind”. This change is okay if they are willing, but when done by force, it is awful. It leads to wars, prejudice and stereotypes.
In Frank L Baum editorials all these issues are present. Baum writes that the Medicine Man was “an Indian with a white man’s spirits of hatred and revenge for those who has wronged him”. Hatred and revenges has nothing to do with color they are apart of being human. Every heart holds some type of hatred and revenges, but it is just awful with the human minds retaliate back to those who they hate that is what make hatred and revenges wrong. The Pioneers set the level of intolerance for the Indians when they said, “that our only safety depends upon total exterminations [sic] of the Indians.” I was like “what the world” when I read that. Maybe they would have not posed a threat if the Pioneers hadn’t came in on there land acting as if they already owned the land. Baum also wrote that “we cannot honestly regret there extermination”. As humans when have something in us that make us feel bad when he have wrong people or killed people, this is the reason why solider are psych evaluation when they come back from war, because when as humans naturally feel bad for killings someone, unless there is something wrong with us.
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