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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another attempt to ruin a holiday by shaming Americans.

Get your own holiday to cry over.[/quote]

America does have a dark past. We should reflect on the massive human cost of building this country.

-Mayflower descendant 
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In comparison to China, India? Yeah, no.

Also the Belgium and French colonizers (and attempted Japanese ones) were way, way worse than the English. [/quote]

Ok. And? When we are celebrating *our country* we should acknowledge the genocide that paralleled its growth.

Why pretend like it didn’t happen? 
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Isn't that now Columbus Day? The day my husband is passed about because he's Italian and that holiday was made to acknowledge the racial discrimination against Italians in America, but now it's a symbol of Native American genocide, so that battle has been won.

Fwiw - my family did the Oregon trail there were no Native Americans oppressed in that journey. My ancestors did, however, lose 3 wives on the way out west.[/quote]

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