Posted on 02/24/2010 6:36:36 AM PST by flowerplough
Various of my ancestors ate people and practiced human sacrifice, slavery and infanticide, too. I just am willing to admit it. I fail to see why what my pagan ancestors did should be of much importance to anybody today.
I’m unclear why various ethnic groups today are so invested in denying their history.
It is always possible they never hit anybody.
Thanks. Found this which is quite informative. http://hnn.us/articles/7302.html Guenter Lewy, Were American Indians the Victims of Genocide?
Agree. Good link relative to balance in post #11
Oops, that too, but i meant #23.
sorry about the multy post...computer issue
It’s also interesting to compare the US history of Indian relations with that of Argentina, which had similar problems with the native population.
Unlike the US, genocide/extermination was official Argentine policy for decades. Worked, too. Argentina has no Indian problem, since it has no Indians. Final Solution and all that.
You can say that again, though this exists sometimes on the other side somewhat.
I should have posted this before:
Historian and author John Fea of Messiah College states that,
“Zinn writes well and is quite inspiring, but his book is bad history. In fact, I would not even call it history. A People’s History of the United States is a political tract that uses the past to promote a presentist agenda...Zinn’s book violates virtually every rule of good historical thinking.”
Michael Kazin, Professor in the Department of History at Georgetown University states that,
“A People’s History is bad history, albeit gilded with virtuous intentions. Zinn reduces the past to a Manichean fable”, whose failure to adequately explain why most Americans accepted the legitimacy of the capitalist republic “is grounded in a premise better suited to a conspiracy-monger’s Web site than to a work of scholarship.”
http://conservapedia.com/Howard_Zinn
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