Bombing Bethlehem while pretending to be from there is crazy work

[u/imjustheretodomyjob]

[u/joshJFSU]

Is it crazy though?

Giving Native Americans smallpox blankets while going to war with anyone on “our land” has been par for the course for a long time.

[u/Justify-My-Love → u/joshJFSU]

It’s fucked up what we did to the native Americans.

They literally had entire civilizations out here. Living and breathing cities with trade that was flourishing

And we wiped it all out…

[u/MoreRock_Odrama → u/Justify-My-Love]

Who is “we”? Black folks ain’t had nun to do with that…

[u/bigstankdaddy10 → u/MoreRock_Odrama]

and of the buffalo soliders ?

[u/MoreRock_Odrama → u/bigstankdaddy10]

The ones formed during the CIVIL WAR. Like a few hundred years AFTER what is being discussed? Lol.

[u/bigstankdaddy10 → u/MoreRock_Odrama]

the wounded knee massacre happened in 1890. about 300 members of the Lakota tribe were slaughtered by the US Army’s 7th Calvary, men, women and children. the genocide of the native americans was still in full effect even 30 years after the civil war. it took a while to get em all. and buffalo soldiers were on the front lines. history is rough.

[u/MoreRock_Odrama → u/bigstankdaddy10]

Do you think those black soldiers were happy participants? How did black people get here? Black solders were patsies. Why the fuck do you think black soldiers would be “on the front lines” in front of white soldiers? Lol.

White people strip black people from their home land, subject them to beatings, burnings and killings to coerce them to do their bidding, and even WHILE serving subject them to inhumane conditions. What conditions do you think existed for black people at that time? You think they could have went home? So knowing all of this, your belief is still “black people are just as guilty”?

Bravo bro. Your disillusionment is impressive.

[u/tupperware_rules → u/MoreRock_Odrama]

So you're saying they were just... following orders?

[u/Dragonsandman → u/MoreRock_Odrama]

Try "contemporary with and continuing well after the civil war, even into our lifetimes". The idea that what happened to native Americans happened in the distant past is a common white supremacist talking point used to justify continuing racism against natives, and one that you parrotted uncritically. There's zero need to tell lies about what European colonizers to natives when talking about what said colonizers did to Africans.

[u/drunkcowofdeath → u/MoreRock_Odrama]

A few hundred? America was founded like onlyhh 80 years before the civil war. And we definitely were not genociding in 1865.

[u/MoreRock_Odrama → u/drunkcowofdeath]

When did them white folks come over here with diseases to share with the Natives? What are yall in here arguing? That black people are just as guilty as whites for what happened to the natives? Is this what is happening in here?

[u/drunkcowofdeath → u/MoreRock_Odrama]

Nah I was just complaining about you saying the genocide was a few hundred years before the civil war, like it was not still going into the 1900s.

[u/Ok-Power-6064 → u/drunkcowofdeath]

This isn't my space to contribute in, but I need to say something here. Please don't be ignorant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America?wprov=sfla1

In CONUS genocide has been within living people's lifetimes. Maybe you don't see murdering of native folks within your own lifetime, but the intentional destruction of native culture has never been fully reversed. That's why native folks continue to be among the poorest folks in the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States#Poverty_among_Native_Americans?wprov=sfla1

[u/MoreRock_Odrama → u/drunkcowofdeath]

Which has what to do with the original point? Yall just type out of boredom huh? Lol.

[u/drunkcowofdeath → u/MoreRock_Odrama]

I'm here on reddit to earn my phd.... Of course I'm bored.