[...]My point is, everyone was violently dominating everyone back then, (they still are, just more subtly). History shows us that black people didn't have the resources or ability to look out for their own interests the way others did.[...]
That's not true at all. After Reconstruction blacks were more than happy to coexist with whites and Native Americans, while whites were hell bent on turning this country into a White Power sanctuary. Take a look at all the Resistance and Removal laws that were passed once expansion to the west became policy. I mean, ask yourself, how do you move west into territories that already have owners? You steal their land and invite the people there to move to the west.
You don't have to be a genius to realize everything was fine and dandy until the Pacific Ocean got in the way. It was only then that we, as a country, engaged in the sort of genocidal tendencies we despised others for. We called it the "Wild West". Well, it was "Wild" because whites were let loose to murder and pillage (Viking style) and take other people's possessions. Only until the Native Americans were removed did we implement a law-based system.
The saddest part is how our justice system was "tweaked" to legalize the wholesale theft and murder that had taken place, passing laws that prevented the descendants of the people whose land had been stolen from going back to the towns they were removed from and trying to negotiate a financial agreement on the property.
It was racial cleansing terrorism.