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A History of Deploying the US National Guard to Make White People Feel Safe
Since its humble beginnings as a colonial militia, the National Guard has served as slave catchers, civil rights suppressors and a historically anti-Black police force.

When England sent John Stone to America, it was not sending its best people.

Stone was described as “a drunkard, a lecher, a braggart, a bully and blasphemer,” and by 1634, the undocumented immigrant’s rap sheet included arrests for theft, blasphemy and sleeping with the wives of settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. After reportedly committing acts of cannibalism in the Caribbean, the English thug came to America and pioneered an early form of carjacking (he plied a ship’s captain with alcohol and stole his boat, which technically was “boatjacking”). When Stone threatened to smite the shite out of the Plymouth colony’s governor, he was “ordered upon pain of death to come here no more.” Instead of self-deporting, he went to Connecticut and kidnapped a few indigenous people, who deported Stone to the afterlife.

Technically, the Pequot natives were America’s first Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Stone was the definition of an “illegal alien,” but he was also white. So, on Dec. 13, 1636, the Massachusetts General Court organized four militia regiments and trained them once a month to protect the Christian colonists from the indigenous “heathens.” By July 1637, Salem militia leader John Endicott—who was “generally considered the most intolerant and least conciliable of the early Massachusetts magistrates and governors”—had mustered 90 militiamen to avenge Stone’s death in what became known as the Pequot Genocide.

To the English, the treaty banning the indigenous tribe from speaking their language, living on their land or calling themselves “Pequot” was a victory. To natives, the first planned ethnic cleansing in the American colonies was committed by trained terrorists. But today, for more than 430,000 Americans, Dec. 13, 1636—the day the slaughter, enslavement and forced deportation of the indigenous began—is a day of celebration.

It’s the birthday of the U.S. National Guard.

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