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Showing Original Post only (View all)The USA needs to confront its true history, genocide and slavery, guns and wars. [View all]
The USA was built on armed invasion and the genocide of uncounted Native Nations.
Guns made it possible to steal land from unarmed Natives.
Guns made it possible to steal people from Africa for enslavement in the USA.
Guns made it possible to throw off English rule and invade Ohio.
Guns made it possible to kill every Indian in sight and settle Oregon.
Guns made it possible to steal half of Mexico from Native peoples.
Guns made it possible to force surviving Natives into their concentration camps.
Confronting this history requires doing something about the Native Peoples in the Concentration Camps (reservations).
Confronting this history requires doing something about the stolen lands which rightfully belong to others.
Confronting this history requires doing something about the false history and false idea that the USA is great.
There is one just place where people think the USA is great, inside the USA. The rest of the world knows the facts.
It is about time the people inside the bubble did too.