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America's biggest secret about where we all came from #history #mindblown

17 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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Almost everyone in America came from somewhere else, driven by war, poverty, or religious persecution, often carrying deep trauma. The speaker traces how these immigrants built agriculture, science, and medicine while the nation simultaneously enslaved Black people, discriminated against women and the disabled, and waged religious conflicts. Understanding America means holding both its contributions and its wounds.

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For America, we look at our history, we look at our past. Who are we? We're people. We weren't the natives here for the most part, except for the Native Americans. Nobody is native to America. We're all immigrants. Many, many, many of the people who came to America to begin with and over many hundreds of years were fleeing war. They were fleeing poverty. They were fleeing religious persecution. They were fleeing Some people came for adventure and riches and, you know, wanting to discover new land, but many people brought massive unhealed trauma at a time in human history where we didn't talk about trauma. Many of the people here who came here were incredible survivors and inventors, and they devised ways of agriculture and science and medicine and art and technology. We're incredible human beings, but we also slaughtered. Hundreds of thousands of people. We made Black people slaves. We discriminated against women and the disabled. I think we've always had religious conflict. So that's part of our conditioning too. So we, we look at our strengths and we build on them, but then we look at our own wounding and the wounds that we have perpetrated ourselves, and that's the beginning.