Shaun King can barely hide his glee over the killing of five Dallas police officers.

Via NYDN:

…The United States was not founded by sweet Pilgrims who ate turkey with their indigenous friends. This land was actually deeply loved and fully populated when Europeans first arrived here.

A combination of violence and new plagues killed millions of indigenous people and they were forcefully relocated to random swaths of land that we now call reservations. To develop the newly acquired land, the United States forced tens of millions of Africans into slavery for nearly 250 years. This was no kind request, but a forced brutality that I will not detail here today. About 250 years of slave labor built this nation from scratch. Enslaved Africans literally built our nation's capital.

The violent and deeply unethical founding and growth of this country is a key ingredient. You don't have to feel guilty for it if you don't want to, but you can't ignore it. It's already in the mixing bowl.

Racism, not the historical variety under which 4,000 African-Americans were lynched from coast to coast, but the present day kind, is yet another key ingredient of this nation. I don't remember the last day I wasn't called a n—-r on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or email […]

How did we expect this would turn out? Did we sincerely think that we were going to pile bitter ingredients on top of each other for years on end and not get something like what we see in Dallas right now?

If police officers are not held accountable for the deaths of Sterling and Castile, I can't say we will see more of what happened in Dallas, but I sincerely believe our nation will absolutely erupt with anger and pain in ways we've never quite seen before.