> One might also argue that incidents like the deliberate infection of native Americans with smallpox were evil, but they localized incidents, and not something that was endorsed at the highest levels of government.
This is more myth than fact, and also predated the US by decades:
This is more myth than fact, and also predated the US by decades:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1088/did-whites-eve...