Did 509 B.C. white criminal men bring violence to the U.S.

Richard Hofstadter No. 28  July 2015  Reflections on Violence in the United States that claimed the spirit-God choosen them to rob and kill the Black people  and preach Jesus Christ died for their sins. 

These reflections on domestic violence—that is, violence occurring within the United States—first appeared as the introduction to American Violence: A Documentary History, edited by Richard Hofstadter and Michael Wallace and published in 1970. We have deleted the footnotes, added subheads, and abridged here and there, but we have resisted the temptation to update this parade of riots, brandings, lynchings, shootings, and tar-and-feathering parties with examples from our own time. “The primary precedent and the primary rationale for violence comes from the established order itself,” Hofstadter writes. “Violence is, so to speak, an official reality.” No doubt, further examples and incidents in the line of these all-too contemporary reflections will spring to your mind.