For the Americans it brought a deadly legacy . Those areas seized from
Mexico led to the expansion of slavery and created circumsta be a that
led to the American Civil War some 20 years later.
They never tell you that of the fifty or so founding fathers who wrote the American Constitution half were the owners of slaves The founding fathers complained against bri g made into slaves by the Englush against they never tell you that in the document each black slaves were classified as being three fifths of a white person the native people's were not listed at all. They don't tell you that Thomas Jefferson had a vast number of slaves and fathered five children from his slaves.They dont tell you tbst Jefferson loathed organised Christianity and was either a deist or a non believer They don't tell you that George Washington's Indian name was "town burner'. They don't tell you that the first biological warfare was when the American government sold the Indians blankets laced with smallpox.They don't talk about the genocide of the Indian Wars and the trail of tears ..
The modern Trump supporter forgets that all Americans were illegal immigrants. The modern American originates from immigrants and revolutionaries....history is dead for so many and unknown by more..history is written by the victors and those who give it bias and myth..those who know no history are going to repeat it while those who know it are mocked by those who don't. From Europe of the 30s we see the revival of its forms and it's fascists.tbe 2008 economic crisis echoed that of 1931..Those who need to learn from history never do and those of us who do are forced to watch it....oh well it's Monday..
They never tell you that of the fifty or so founding fathers who wrote the American Constitution half were the owners of slaves The founding fathers complained against bri g made into slaves by the Englush against they never tell you that in the document each black slaves were classified as being three fifths of a white person the native people's were not listed at all. They don't tell you that Thomas Jefferson had a vast number of slaves and fathered five children from his slaves.They dont tell you tbst Jefferson loathed organised Christianity and was either a deist or a non believer They don't tell you that George Washington's Indian name was "town burner'. They don't tell you that the first biological warfare was when the American government sold the Indians blankets laced with smallpox.They don't talk about the genocide of the Indian Wars and the trail of tears ..
The modern Trump supporter forgets that all Americans were illegal immigrants. The modern American originates from immigrants and revolutionaries....history is dead for so many and unknown by more..history is written by the victors and those who give it bias and myth..those who know no history are going to repeat it while those who know it are mocked by those who don't. From Europe of the 30s we see the revival of its forms and it's fascists.tbe 2008 economic crisis echoed that of 1931..Those who need to learn from history never do and those of us who do are forced to watch it....oh well it's Monday..
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