my father liked his Indian talk about the Great Spirit,” Ridgeway said. “All these years late, I prefer the American spirit, the one that called us from the Old World to the New, to conquer and build and civilize. And destroy that what needs to be destroyed. To lift up the lesser races. If not lift up, subjugate. And if not subjugate, exterminate. One destiny by divine perscription–the American imperative

my father liked his Indian talk about the Great Spirit,” Ridgeway said. “All these years late, I prefer the American spirit, the one that called us from the Old World to the New, to conquer and build and civilize. And destroy that what needs to be destroyed. To lift up the lesser races. If not lift up, subjugate. And if not subjugate, exterminate. One destiny by divine perscription–the American imperative (Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad)