These are exactly the same kinds of leaders and policies that justified and then executed the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Native Americans and wrote the Three-Fifths Compromise into the United States Constitution, declaring that Black people who were enslaved weren't whole people. It was Supreme Court Justices just like those currently sitting on the bench who ruled in Dred Scott that Black people were not citizens of the United States and that Congress was powerless to prevent slavery in U.S. territories. From the beginning, people who deny the founding ideal of this country that "all men are created equal" have sought and won power and authority. Even the men who declared their independence did not believe that "all" included indigenous people, those they enslaved or women. Let eyes opened by the present give us the ability to see the past clearly, so that we can finally understand, turn and be healed.