Adebayo,

Um, you forgettin' about the non-European Ottomans who favoured white slaves, some 2.5 million, for centuries? BTW, the Arabs and Egyptians under Ottoman rule, often routinely castrated Black slaves.

Or the Mongols? 10% of the world's population slaughtered?

And that's not even getting into more recently Mao's 'Great Leap Forward'...the staggering number starved to death reaching 35-50 million, all in just four short years: 1958-62.

China and the Uyghurs or the Tibetans?

IOW, it's not just Europeans, or those of such descent...it's all of us who have profited from our inhumanity, and as you point out, continue to.

However, you're right when you wrote, "We cannot let the worst among us to govern our polities."

For indeed, it is our psychopaths who control so much of what consume and think and therefore enact.

And as to your most adroit suggested reading list?

This statistic frightens me:

"A full 46% of Americans did not finish a book last year and 5% more read just one, so if you read two books you’re in the top half of American readers."

I regularly watch Al Jazeera to balance out CBC, CNN , MSNBC and FOX (which requires that I have not eaten) in order to try and make sense of what lies behind the curtains...most recently the genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

But in North America?

As much as I detest this kind of stereotyping, it's almost as if I hear this as retort to your call for an end to such savagery:

"As long as my tribal warriors kill and maim and slaughter to keep me warm and secure, secure enough to enjoy the INDY 500, the NFL and Professional Wrestling, then I don't give a god-given damn about what happens to some Palestinian children....after all, Israel is on our team, and they're winning, right?"