The Irony of Uncle Sam
Until recently, the traditional Uncle Sam has had the features of the Americans of willing-immigrant heritage, which connoted the source of whom held the authority-power of the United States being the majority and dominant population.

From the very inception of the United States which was that of British colonies, the early Uncle Sam image represented a nation that held human beings as living, human property in what became known as institutionalized chattel slavery.

It happens that the enslaved peoples being purchased as slaves from the already existent African slave market which was the normal business of most nations on that continent, had physical features and characteristics that were essential polar opposite of those who became their American, colonial masters-owners.

Therefore, in the eyes of the enslaved peoples, Brother Jonathan morphed into Uncle Sam was the image of their horrific oppressing, slave masters, and therefore repugnant to them.

This is the wonder that people have when they see Mister Patriot in the garb of the “oppressive” Uncle Sam, the United States government.

Furthermore, Brother Jonathan-Uncle Sam who practiced chattel slavery is the same representative character of and under the red-white-blue, Old Glory-Stars and Stripes flag that this “new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” annihilated the Indigenous Peoples (Native Americans-so called Indians) who originally inhabited this North American continent.

In fact, the ambiance of the great American symbol was so infectious that former chattel slaves who fought in the US Civil War To Free the Slaves on the side of the Northern Union against the Southern Confederate States, dawned the Yankee blue military uniforms and joined Uncle Sam in the so called * Indian Wars of the mid 1860’s to the 1890’s, as the notorious, Buffalo Soldiers.

• “Indian Wars” – Were waged from the beginning of James Town and Plymouth through to the 1890’s, which was the systematic genocide the Indigenous Peoples.

Therefore, with such a notoriously hypocritical and bloody record, it made no sense for the Americans of chattel slavery heritage to embrace the icons of the flag and Uncle Sam.

Yet, history demonstrates that these unique Americans were always front and center in the wars of Uncle Sam from that of 1776 through to the Spanish-American, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Granada, Afghanistan and Iraq, et al.

For some strange and mysterious reason, the chattel slavery heritage Americans have remained loyal and patriotic to the United States as though they were waiting for some heretofore, unanswered prayers to GOD, the Central Figure of the Declaration of the Independence.

Though converts from their original religions of Africa to the spiritual faith of the Uncle Sam’s citizens, being Judaic-Christian, today’s chattel slave ancestors consistently praised and spoke intently to The Creator concerning their own state and that of their children in this strange land.

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