Worst thing the USA has done; Indians Slaughtered(NATIVE),Japan Bombing, Enslavementof the blacks?
155947
If it's so awful here, why don't you go somewhere else? All civilizations have skeletons in the closet. Dwell on the good things America has done. Quit being a hater.
38682
OK Lets be honest, when most people think of the word Genocide, they think of what happened to the Jews in World War II.  \n\nThe US has never systematically tried to murder millions of Innocent people.  \n\nWith that being said by “definition”, the US has and is will continue to commit “genocide”, but so has everyone else “by definition”.  The closest we have come to the lowest meaning of the word would be what we did to Native American’s, but much of that comes down to what your willing to believe.  \n\nCivilians killed by the military are causalities of war, not victims of genocide.  And the (CPPCG) definition seems a little extreme, it basically says that if you kill any two members of the same group you commit genocide.  \n\nAnd for the record Al Qaida, although a national, racial, political, and ethnic group, also happens to be an army who decided to commit an act of war against the US.  So believe me, it is not us that god need be with, it is them.  And come on, what we did to the blacks is not called genocide, its called slavery.  How the hell does any bad or wrong act all the sudden become an act of genocide.  \n\nIn conclusion why don’t we just stick the best known meaning of the word genocide, instead of turning it into this all inclusive term, because technically two armies who fight each other commit genocide by definition.  By devaluing the word Genocide into an all inclusive term, you do an injustice to people who have had to go through real genocide.
715562
8:00 pm east coast, history channel. Maybe some people can learn a bit of truth about this holiday. Native Americans have gotten the crappy end of the stick more than any other race of people in America. If more people really knew their history, not the crap they teach about feel good history, they wouldn't write the kind of responses I have read. I guess it applies to all forums on here. Some people wouldn't believe the truth even if it was smacking them in the face. Demonize it, then kill it or pass a law to control it. Worked then, works now.
564412
it would have to be african slaves...a very sad part of us history
1012329
Yeah, Harry Truman is the world's worst terrorist followed closely by Bush, America is an international disgrace and we should be more like France where prosperity abounds and everyone is happy and peaceful.   (That's sarcasm, if you didn't realize)
1002065
Oh my...\n\nI have never read such an uneducated opinion on US History in all my life...\n\nYes, I agree.....do some research, read some books... \n\nTHEY should get the blame? Hello-it was the EUROPEANS who came to the western land and brought slaves with them to work the land in this "new world".  The United States only abolished slavery after many years of bloodshed and pressure from the citizens...but they didn't welcome these former slaves with open arms... These men and women had to go through many more years of hell to get equal rights....\n\nAnd the Native Americans should feel lucky for the Casinos? Are you kidding me????? The Europeans raped their lands, their families, forced them to assimilate to "christian" culture....and they should be grateful???  To this day, the federal government is screwing the Native Americans.... \n\nGo to my link below...\n\nAnd, who do you think the United States are???? \n\nWe are decendants of slaves, Native Americans forced out of their lands, Hispanics, and yes...those Europeans you are talking about. It's not like those who created the US officially are a totally different type of people who went around "fixing" everything. \n\nThose that need to be blamed are long since dead.... but we can learn from their mistakes...and make sure we know the real history of what really happened....
831304
And before the Italians, it was the Irish who were discriminated against in the eastern seaboard. And in the West Coast, it was the Chinese and the Japanese and the Filipinos. And there's slavery. And land taking from indigenous people and other nations' territories while denigrating the original inhabitants who remain. American history is loaded with ethnic exclusion and discrimination. This shouldn't be shocking.
962061
Bombing civilians,Men ,Women and Children was wrong.It's America's biggest mistake.Nothing could justify that awful act.Had America lost the war Harry Truman would have been tried as the war criminal he was.It was a shameful act.
571282
Are you kidding?  The English colonization of India, was akin to slavery.  They raped the country, disregarded their culture and precepts and forced these people to work.. The Civil Rights movement in the United States followed the teachings of Gandhi to liberate African Americans...come on  Man...are you that insensitive?
791837
I personally think that the 'war' should have ended long ago. Bush is being a bully and is really just finishing what his father couldn't. Yes, its the greed of the oil. Money is the root of all evil. Just because some terrorists were muslim doesn't mean that all muslims are bad. We do have american terrorists, the unibomber,  the Oklahoma dude so does that mean we are going to hate americans too? Its all about racism. Period. What about those Virginia snipers? I would have never, ever thought they were african americans.  There are bad people in all races.
1047420
I asked that question here and I was castigated for doing so. Apparently they do not have any oil and the US is too busy fighting the Iraqis to intervene in mass genocide of the worst kind, in which Arab Islamic fighters from the North of Sudan are using every despicable tool of warfare, including rape and torture, to wipe out the black population of the South. Usual African brotherhood stuff.
433108
Uh, yeah!\n\nIt was genocide, it is still happening, but the US Government will never apologize becuase they dont/wont ever believe that what they did to us was/is wrong.\n\nNot killing brain cells holding my breath on this one
859073
man i have been there. \nHere is a trick, start with "Slavery destroyed more families than anything else in america". then write your ass off. you will get sympathy instead of facts.
506582
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - they made the white may into a savage in the name of religion also the white man went on committing excesses that in modern times would be acts punishable by the most stringent punishments. \nA culture, a way of life that was alien to Christian thinking was destroyed and the people killed to extinction. Look at what happened to civilisations in S America, the Red  Indians as the white men called them. Also, the white man's greed for land, for gold, for material benefits completely finished off a way of life-be it the native American of the Afro who for more than 2 centuries was mere possession to be exchanged or killed or raped or whatever the white 'massa' wanted. This thinking has continued even now among some of the die hard racists. I think the Ku-Klux Klan still exists in some parts of the US. \n\nIncidentally I am from India, and boy, were whites racists and bigots then. Thank God we had a Mahatma Gandhi, who contributed a lot who to change human thinking about other humans.\n\nFortunately now, at least in theory we are all equal.
1139877
don't worry what you call the japs buddy.they are not exactly in any position to point the finger at any one after the atrocities they were guilty of in their 2ND world war P.O.W. camps.i think japs or nips or dinks fits them well.they treated their animals better than they did us british.and beheadings before breakfast for sport was common place.you know like whats being going on in iraq .the japs were worse.
688727
not without the destruction of every other country on earth
408687
Our nations wrongdoings.................!!!!!