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Originally Posted by OneHungLo
Well I guess when you have a written language you can write the books, no?
And he's right...people have been murdering, raping enslaving, and pillaging for eons yet they just want to cry about white people doing it. If an alien landed here for a week they'd think white's were responsible for all the woes in the world...which is the complete opposite. Take away Europeans / European Americans inventions and gifts to mankind and you'll be back in the stone age with a lifespan of 25.
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I have often thought about this, being 1/16 Apache myself. The whole kill the Injuns thing really just comes down to technology. No written languages, no guns, no machinery of any kind...the Indians were basically one step above primitives. So primitives face a superior technological force. What was going to happen? What has happened throughout history.
When or where in human history has a superior technological and military force voluntarily lived side-by-side in peace with primitives? Even the Roman Empire, who tended to leave native peoples alone as long as they paid their tribute to Rome, still upgraded the civilizations and 'Romanized' them via roads, etc. What were the Colonists and early Americans supposed to do with the indian populations? Hmmm?
Sad, tragic amoral - all true. But inevitable nonetheless.