2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Should the next Democratic president apologize to Latin America for all past US intervention? [View all]okasha
(11,573 posts)that covers everyone between Alaska and Tierra del Fuego. Many of Latin America's problems have far more to do with residual effects of Spanish colonialism than with the US, including an inured racial class/caste system. That system continues to produce European-style oligarchies and huge income inequalities that go back beyond the founding of the United States. The US has been complicit in those evils, of course, but it is neither the sole cause nor the cure. For many, the most pressing need is relief from organized criminal violence. The best help the US can give there is to break the North American ties to that violence by ceasing to be consumers of its products.
What Native Americans in the US would like the government to do, for starters:
1. Honor the treaties.
2. Recognize genuine tribal sovereignty.
Beyond that, we can talk about the concerns of each Nation.
I don't presume to speak for African Americans. My remarks here are those of a Native American born and partly raised in Mexico, whose father grew up in Costa Rica. I acknowledge your good intentions, but apologies do not solve problems.