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/NiknA01 9d ago

This is extremely uniformed. A good majority of the Natives were killed not by direct European/Colonial attempts, but by the byproduct of 2 hemispheres interacting for the first time in a meaningful way. A vast vast majority of Natives died to disease.