But I do look forward to a day when our face is not constantly rubbed in it. Will that day ever come?
No. Unless libs decide to no longer attend journalism school.
Yes, I agree. Bad things were done, but there’s no point in wallowing in it forever. Basically, under the US, the Indians did eventually get a fair deal, but the thing that really ruined it was the advent of the 1960s and the bizarre separatist movement that essentially condemned the various tribes to live in subjugation to their dysfunctional, greedy chiefs in their sovereign territories (reservations). With all the gambling money that flows into Indian territories, they should have flourishing cities, not shanty towns of illiterate alcoholics.
But that’s neither here nor there. The Spanish were much better colonizers than the British, and thus ended up with mestizo populations. This is something that did not happen in the US, partly because our aboriginal population was lower, and partly because the British were never interested in converting the Indians, teaching them European ways, and marrying them, but instead regarded them as exotic savages who could never be British. The initial US approach had a lot of the British colonist in it.
Oddly enough, when the British went to India, they seem to have changed their approach and made serious efforts to educate the (East) Indians about Western culture and political practice.
No
“But I do look forward to a day when our face is not constantly rubbed in it. Will that day ever come?”
Not likely. Not as long as any group wants to remain a victim.
agreed on all counts.
American Indians suffered terribly as this nation expanded.
I am all in support of such memorials.
But at times, it can be abused as a guilt trip against our modern nation today.
I have to point out that had this nation not expanded and became a world force, how would the Indians have been treated by things like the NAZI, Japanese or Soviet empires as they expanded un-hindered by the United States?