This is the best you guys can do?

“You have people that are teaching — and actually his running mate has said this in the past — that teaching the United States was built on stolen land," DeSantis said. "That is inappropriate for our schools; it's not true.”
Governor and boy who never went to history class, Ron DeSantis.

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DavidT8899 · 22-25, M

On the other hand,the country usually paid for the land it annexed.Not a perfect solution,but........

LeopoldBloom · M

@DavidT8899 Paid for it by killing the inhabitants and putting the survivors into concentration camps?

Graylight · 51-55, F

Bullshit. Consult an expert on the topic and they’ll tell you just how many treaties we kept and how much money we paid.@DavidT8899

LeopoldBloom · M

@Graylight He needs to read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

DavidT8899 · 22-25, M

@Graylight Well,I know we paid Mexico for the land we seized in fair conquest-something Im sure most countries wouldnt have done under similar circumstances.I know that in many cases,the U.S. goverment has made cash settlement with displaced Indian tribes.As I stated before,I realize that its not a perfect solution and its not one that was implemented every time out.But I still belive that its more of an effort than most places would give for doi g rhe same thing.

LeopoldBloom · M

@DavidT8899 There were no "cash settlements" with Native American tribes. They were massacred, driven off their land, and forced into what amount to concentration camps. You make it sound like a legitimate real estate purchase. That may have happened in the very early days when the Pilgrims purchased farm land, but the history of the period after that was genocide and ethnic cleansing.

The misconceptions you have about these basic facts of American history demonstrate how our educational system has failed, and it will only get worse.