American Holocaust

[Number23]

39. "He went the extra mile and said one race was not worthy of existing" Treestar, the same

was done to Native Americans.

One of the many ways that whites dehumanized NA was to declare them "uncivilized." Are you not aware that many NAs were actually referred to as "savages" by whites? And NA men were painted with the same racist, criminal brush that other men of color (particularly black men) were painted with which is that they were criminals who were "out to rape white women." That excused the mind-boggling list of atrocities that they endured under the auspices of the United States federal government which killed them like vermin, stole from them and broke treaty after treaty.

A recent documentary I saw on the NA film industry talked about the "Indians want a white woman" meme that was portrayed by whites. (Sounds ever so similar to the tired "black men want white women" meme that we are all forced to hear over and over and over again despite every metric that says that a) the vast majority of married black men are married to black women and b) Asians, not blacks have by far the highest rate of interracial marriage followed closely by non-black Hispanics.)

The NA actors and filmmakers felt that in terms of propaganda, that was probably one of the most effective ones because it brought out the caveman (me paraphrasing) in the white male settlers more than anything else -- this idea that their wives, daughters etc. were going to be preyed upon by NA men. Which is exactly what it is was intended to do.