Were you expecting perfection from imperfect people of the past, today and tomorrow? History is full stuff like that. If you cling to the past, you are chained to the past. Then these pioneers are still with you, not today but in the past with you. As a Japanese American, it would be easy for me to throw what happened to people who look like me back in 1942 back at the whites. But past is past. It time to move on and hope for better tomorrow because you can't see tomorrow, if you live in the past.