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They continue today. They go unmentioned. Few Americans know. They're airbrushed from history. General Phillip Sheridan explained saying "The only good Indian is a dead Indian."
Howard Zinn said America committed "genocide brutally and purposefully." It was done "in the name of progress."
US leaders buried ugly truths "in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth."
Over centuries, America reduced its indigenous population to at most 3% of its original total. In his book titled, "A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present," Ward Churchill said:
Millions were "hacked apart with axes and swords, burned alive and trampled under horses, hunted as game and fed to dogs, shot, beaten, stabbed, scalped for bounty, hanged on meathooks and thrown over the sides of ships at sea, worked to death as slave laborers, intentionally starved and frozen to death during a multitude of forced marches and internments, and, in an unknown number of instances, deliberately infected with epidemic diseases."Shockingly, "every one of these practices (continues in new forms). The American holocaust was and remains unparalleled, in terms of its scope, ferocity and continuance over time." Today, its entirely ignored in mainstream discourse.
The African holocaust was just as grim. It resulted from 500 years of colonization, oppression, exploitation, and slavery. Much of it trafficked to America.
Black Africans were captured, branded, chained, force-marched to ports, beaten, kept in cages, stripped of their humanity, and often their lives.
Around 100 million or more were sold like cattle. Millions perished during the Middle Passage. They were packed like cargo under deplorable conditions in coffin-sized spaces. Sometimes they were placed one atop one another.
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