Schmitt claimed America belongs to descendants of "Christian pilgrims that poured out from Europe's shores" while excluding ____ Americans whose ancestors built much of the South and ____ Americans who were here before any Europeans arrived.

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Schmitt erased Black Americans whose slave labor built the agricultural economy and Native Americans who were here thousands of years before Europeans. His "Christian pilgrims" narrative ignores the forced labor that created American wealth and the genocide that cleared the land. This selective history serves white nationalist mythology by pretending America was an empty continent that Europeans "tamed" rather than acknowledging it was stolen and built on enslaved labor.

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