You really have this backwards. The slaughter of Aboriginal Americans was done under the flags of multiple European Empires, long before independence was even a catchphrase in the colonies.
If we want to play the historical blame game, both Europe and the USA need to STFU. Along with every other country on Earth, each of whom have a litany of abuses and atrocities they won't own up to.
No, I do not have it backwards. The persecution of the Native Americans and Africans continued well after U.S. became a nation. Just because abuses started before the U.S. was founded, doesn't excuse the hypocritical foundation the U.S. was built off of.
No doubt that other European countries have their own bloody histories. However, the ease with which history is glossed over, and propaganda is spread regarding the supposedly democratic freedoms the U.S. ushered in, seems predominantly a U.S. issue.
Hypocracy implies no desire to change. The US did, eventually, deliver on its promises. That says to me that the ideals were aspirational, not hypocritical.
>Hypocracy implies no desire to change. The US did, eventually, deliver on its promises. That says to me that the ideals were aspirational, not hypocritical.
Did it though? Or was it just forced to change some things due to mass protests or because it found other ways to get the same conveniences?
I mean, who needs slave labor when you can have an industrial revolution, factories and tractors? That doesn't mean that the old slaves are not equal -- you then have Jim Crow laws, segregation, 70% of prisoners being non-white and other methods of control.
Plus have you talked with native americans, say, in the South Dacota? They have some interesting things to say about the country "delivering on its promises".
If we want to play the historical blame game, both Europe and the USA need to STFU. Along with every other country on Earth, each of whom have a litany of abuses and atrocities they won't own up to.