Look back at the late 60s early 70s: race riots, cops beating up protestors, National Guard shooting college students, people spitting on veterans, assassinations left and right. If we didn't have a second civil war then, we're not going to have one now.
Man, should there be a survey questioning "mass expulsion, slavery, or sending your people to kill and die in a foreign country: which is prettier?" I don't know if I'd even tick a box if I knew what to answer.
After the revolution, congress needed some cash so they enacted a tax exactly like the one that sparked the war. Of course people refused to pay, so G.W. personally led the army to collect the tax at gunpoint. After a single action, he realized that this was a good way to get shot, so he quit and went home. You can google "whiskey rebellion" for the story.
Yes. The U.S. disregarding most treaties made with Native American tribes and forcing them onto reservations mainly in the west. If anyone has a claim to these Unites States, it is them and the rest of us are all carpetbaggers.
How true....the French, Dutch ,English, Germans and Scandinavian countries have all had a hand in doing it all around the globe....The English Royal families being some of the worst culprits I think....:(
This post was edited by Nice Jugs at May 9, 2018 10:26 PM MDT
I would go with the 1950es, the height of Mc Carthyism and the commie scare. Trump merely conjure a pale ghost of that with his crusade against all things Mexican.
200 years of slavery? The Native American genocide? Segregation?
Right now you gave the least competent and most self-indulgent President since Warren G Harding, but most of the worst enormities can be easily undone by the next administration.
This post was edited by Slartibartfast at May 15, 2018 2:05 AM MDT
The real enormity is not Trump, but that seasoned politicians supported his nomination and election. Yes, his damage can be undone; but will the next administration have the ability to do it ?
Slavery and the way Native Americans were treated are horrific stains on American history. (Ecclesiastes 8:9) All of this I have seen, and I applied my heart to every work that has been done under the sun, during the time that man has dominated man to his harm.
Qualifier - that's the timeline of AFRICAN slavery in America, and there's a caveat on that one too - the Africans who arrived on a Dutch ship in 1619 were technically indentured servants, rather than chattel slaves. The practice of importing indentured servants began before that - poor British and Irish were arriving as indentured servants almost immediately after the Mayflower. Indentured servants were freed after a set period of time. Chattel slavery is generally held to have begun in 1640, when a court sentenced John Punch to indentured servitude for life. The first state to institutionalize slavery was Massachusetts, in 1641. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States
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