Alvin, you will get no argument from me about the horrors that the Native American's faced at the hands of the European (early American) settlers. Your people were massacred, first by the introduction of disease that the Native American's had no resistance to and then at the hands of the white settlers when it became inconvenient to expand because the Native American's were laying claim on what was rightfully theirs. There are a couple of differences. First, when Colombus came to America, Queen Isabella declared that all native people living in lands discovered in the name of the crown where to be her subjects. Immediately the native population was exempt from slavery, being subjects of the crown. This is not to say that there was...

Are you high? I suppose you also believe that the other Holocaust wasn't as bad as it is made out to be. Bottom line, this country was built on the backs of African Slaves. In the beginning people in all states owned slaves. This country could have never become the super power it did if it wasn't for the free labor in the form of slavery. America should be ashamed of their past the same way that the German's are ashamed of their Nazi past. Yes, we need to make reparations in order to heal this wound. The new horror of all of this comes from people like you that try to make excuses, marginalize and basically re-write history to cast a positive light on the early Americans. It shocks me that a journalist can be so ignorant about...