History has surely been unkind to many large groups. There must be a heaven if only because over the centuries and millennia, the only thing that many have seen in their lifetime has been pure hell.

Sometimes, one hears an argument that the colonial powers were innately better or that Europeans in general were by nature superior to the Native Americans or the Africans or Indians or Chinese whose lands and lifestyles were the victim of European colonization. We have the case of huge shifts in population by enslavement and indentureship, for example, to the Caribbean.

After the countries in the region gained their independence, there was a flood of citizens to the colonial “mother countries'” leading many analysts to concur that this was further proof of the necessity for others to be Europe-dependent due to deficiencies in their own capabilities.

If you forcibly, or through economic stranglehold, move millions across oceans, then set them free generations later, or renege on promises made in recruiting their services and then leave them hanging, how can a better outcome occur than what has happened? The path to development did not occur via balanced and proportionate means…the end result is chaos. Economies struggle as, in order to survive, people fight for crumbs left behind by departing colonizers.

A bigger pie must be created…and a new psychology must emerge which recognizes that no one is innately inferior, that some are victims of historical injustice, that the ugly past is over, and that all of us – originating from the Old and the New Civilizations – must come together to make the entire world a better place and a more level playing field.

There is no racial inferiority or superiority. There has been a history of injustice. Now we must move on to bringing everyone up to speed, while ridding ourselves of the baggage of centuries gone by.