I have to say, after this week’s guest, I’m pretty embarrassed. And if you
live in America, y ou should be, too. While America has pointed the finger
with disgust at the genocides conducted by ISIL, German, and Bosnian
powers— for example— we have yet to come to grips with our own Holocaust:
The several millions of Native American families we slaughtered, enslaved
and tortured in order to occupy and control their land and resources. This
invasion and genocide doesn’t even show up in our culture— from classrooms,
to memorials to even Wikipedia— we don’t even recognize it as a genocide,
even though it meets every criteria. We have isolated ourselves from this
narrative, responsibility and even the remaining Indian populations
themselves, who we’ve cast off into camps far from us.