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The genocide perpetrated against the Indigenous people of continent. It began with thievery, treachery, murder, and broken legal agreements. Andrew Jackson's actions during the forced removal (that's the Whitewashed historian term) of my tribe and the other tribes to the Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, is where Adolf Hitler got many of his ideas on the genocide of the Jewish in Germany. The five civilized tribes forced removal from the south began with the Choctaws. It is documented by historians that Jackson had my tribe, the Mvskoke and the Cherokee rounded up and placed in over crowded holding cells to live in any type of weather and their own excrement before the move.
Just the other day my cousin told me of an incident that is not well documented in the White version of history. That event was that some of the American solidiers who forced the march had Mvskoke women and children get in a boat to cross the Mississippi. Once they were in the middle of the river they were gunned down. There are many family tales that have been handed down that are not well covered, if documented at all, in the history.
How many of you can name the five civilized tribes? After their removal from the south they began moving other tribes like the Shawnee, the Potawatomi, the Sak and Fox and many others.
The worst thing the Americans have done is the theft of land, trickery, and genocide of the Indigenous. And Andrew Jackson is burning in hell.
Another story told by an Indian football player at Oklahoma State in the early 60s runs something like this. The man who seemed to be pretty well off told a professor the reason he wasn't in class the day before was that his horse kicked a rock. The prof couldn't understand how that would cause him to go home. The reply was that every time his horse kicked a rock he uncovered another oil well and he had to go home and sign some more papers. He was glad that his tribe had been forced to leave the southeast US.
Maybe that is not true but at least the man was there and I saw him play football.
What will history record as the worst Atrocity on U.S. soil?
September 11, 2001.
Precipitated several wars.
Precipitated the U.S. and world economy taking a nosedive.
Squandered trillions.
Lost productivity.
Unnecessary deaths.
Caused more widespread mistrust of Islam and people of Middle Eastern descent in the U.S.
Caused homegrown terrorism among Muslims.
True. Notice that there are only two or three real (non-sarcastic) answers...
Of course.
And don't for get the other non-sarcastic answers that are just complete bullsh*t. Not ALL of them, but some just don't compare to slavery, the treatment and near extinction of Native Americans. The B.S. answers of course are the political answers....
we can all pretty much say 9/11 was the worst atrocity that happened on US soil...but the op asked what was the worst AMERICAN atrocity committed on US Soil.....
I guess the mass murder/trail of tears march of various indian tribes was probably the worst thing that happened, or you could say the forced slave labor and mass murder of Africans/blacks, err slaves for over 300 years was the worst thing that happened and led directly/indirectly to the civil war, in which over 600k people were killed.
timothy mcvay and the oklahoma city bombing will always have a place on the list...
david koresh and the branch davidian fire/massacre is on the list
The radical 60's, fire bombings, civil rights workers murdered, JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcom X and Medgar Evers all assassinated......
The war on drugs, which has a direct effect on todays incarceration rates was/is a major failure.
and of course, the economic meltdown of 2006-current, in which millions of people lost jobs, homes, savings and families were destroyed due to the repeal of Glass-Stengall in 1999
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