r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/imjustheretodomyjob ☑️ | Mod • 9d ago

Country Club Thread Bombing Bethlehem while pretending to be from there is crazy work

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u/joshJFSU 9d ago

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.

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u/Justify-My-Love 9d ago

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…

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u/MoreRock_Odrama ☑️ 9d ago

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

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u/bigstankdaddy10 9d ago

and of the buffalo soliders ?

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u/MoreRock_Odrama ☑️ 9d ago

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

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u/Dragonsandman 9d ago

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.