Genocide of the indigenous Americans who kept the first European arrivals alive through those first brutal winters. (And yes, later separating their children from their native parents.)
Enslavement of African Americans (and yes, separating children from parents when sold to different buyers).
The Trail of Tears.
The Japanese Internment concentration camps (and those who support today’s baby internment concentration camps would absolutely be the loudest voices in support of that), which at least kept intact families together, despite other horrific atrocities, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Genocide of the indigenous Americans who kept the first European arrivals alive through those first brutal winters. (And yes, later separating their children from their native parents.)
Enslavement of African Americans (and yes, separating children from parents when sold to different buyers).
The Trail of Tears.
The Japanese Internment concentration camps (and those who support today’s baby internment concentration camps would absolutely be the loudest voices in support of that), which at least kept intact families together, despite other horrific atrocities, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Sadly, yes, it is “who we are.”
Well, not all of us.