Au contraire, Non-Sequitur. The United States Government's actions in the Cherokee removal did not involve a program of deliberate genocide. Land-grabbing and relocation, yes, the United States government and United States troops did do that with the removal, there's no doubt. But not genocide. Only your union heroes like like Sherman have a right to the genocidal claim to fame. Or should that be infamy?
Yeah. That whole 'Trail of Tears' thing was an unfortunate misunderstanding. </sarcasm>
Land-grabbing and relocation, yes, the United States government and United States troops did do that with the removal, there's no doubt.
A Southern born president acting at the insistence of Southern states using troops made up almost entirely of Southern militia. Am I detecting a pattern here?
Only your union heroes like like Sherman have a right to the genocidal claim to fame. Or should that be infamy?
Revisionism is very much a Southron trait.
I think it's a ridiculous distinction to say that the 4,000 Cherokees who died on the "trail of tears" was NOT genocide, but Sherman's actions killing Buffalos WERE genocide.
By today's moral standards, of course, none of these actions would be acceptable. But neither do they correspond to the millions and tens of millions who died under Nazi and Communist tyrannies.