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In reply to the discussion: My parents grew up in Nazi Germany. [View all]BumRushDaShow
(146,199 posts)113. "Granted, we haven't come close to the sort of madness and horror and sadism of Germany 1933 to 1945."
My ancestors and the indigenous of North America would beg to differ.
Biden apologizes for forced Native American boarding school policy that caused abuse and deaths of children.
US Navy will apologize for the 1882 obliteration of a Tlingit village in Alaska
Some other semi-apoloigies.
The largest ethnic group in this country through much of its history, is GERMAN.
The descendants of the European immigrants who dragged the African ancestors of current American citizens, where several million died during the Middle Passage, want us to forget this.
This is why they are trying to ERASE the history here and they've done a damn good job. The 1619 Project attempted to get into it.
Those of us here warn the newly immigrated but they wave it away... until they finally see it for themselves.
I am glad for your epiphany in the moment and the hope is that more will experience the same and will help to continue to move this country into the even greater potential that it CAN have.
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Oct 2024
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#112
"Granted, we haven't come close to the sort of madness and horror and sadism of Germany 1933 to 1945."
BumRushDaShow
Oct 2024
#113