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In reply to the discussion: IN FERGUSON: Police cars, businesses on fire, "much worse than the worst night" in August [View all]Carolina
(6,960 posts)Are you denying the outright theft of Native lands and the downright evil treatment of Native Americans that persists to this day.
This nation was founded on genocide and slavery and I will stand by that. You cannot deny what was done to the "Indians" from 1620 on; and for all those "good souls" who were anti-slavery, you cannot deny that from 1776 to 1861, little was done about slavery. In fact, the South actually started the war ( bombing Ft. Sumter) in large measure to keep its way of life. Even after the war, there were Jim Crow laws until 1964. Yet look around today... it's hunting season on black men. This remains a deadly racist nation... stateside and in the Middle East!
In my family, my slave born great, great grandfather took his 2 eldest children to nearby Appomattox to witness Lee surrender to Grant on 4/9/1865. But watching things unfold in his later years, he said on his death bed in 1900 that a nation founded on the double shame of genocide and slavery was doomed, that the lofty words of the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble to the Constitution were pure hypocrisy. He lived it, he saw it and I believe his journals and the oral history passed down by his 9 children and all the heirs who now own VA plantation where he was born.
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