Lemonhead both believes and denies white people founded America. It’s called “Doublethink”: the ability to hold contradictory ideas at the same time and believe both are true. This is cognitive dissonance. It’s the inability to use abstractions. It’s a concept blockage, a intellectual crash in Don’s little mind.
Lemon assured CNN viewers that Europeans “had nothing” to do with the foundations of the country. Quite a laughable concept, but it becomes even more ridiculous given that just a few months back, the CNN host was assuring that this country was founded by European slaveholders who injected the principles of white supremacy into the culture, and therefore those racist principles are deeply imbedded in the American culture of today.
Which is it, Don? Did Europeans have “nothing” to do with the foundations of the country? Or did they create it in a way that has infected their evil white supremacist principles up until today?
What seems to be going on in the Little Lemon Mind is a very deep resentment and hatred for white people and for the fact that this country was in fact founded by Europeans. Lemon showcases his ignorance and his hatred for Europeans and for white Americans quite often on his TV show. He might not recognize this fact, but deep down he feels inadequate and inferior to the people who were able to found this great nation.
For his hatred of Europeans, Don Lemon seems to gloss over the fact that Native American tribes also held people like him, black people, as slaves, in fact, some of those tribes sided with the Confederacy in the Civil War. Were those European values that these Native Americans tried to uphold? Or did Europeans have nothing to do with anything regarding the creation of what is now the United States? Obviously, we all know the answer, despite how much the woke left tries to erase and change Western culture.
“The Five Civilized Tribes were deeply committed to slavery, established their own racialized black codes, immediately reestablished slavery when they arrived in Indian territory, rebuilt their nations with slave labor, crushed slave rebellions, and enthusiastically sided with the Confederacy in the Civil War,” Paul Chaat Smith, the curator of the National Museum of the American Indian, told Smithsonian Magazine.
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