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The Role Model.

Throughout our semester we’ve learned certain patterns of thought and behavior, such as propaganda, dehumanization, and obedience which leads to repression to others. We’ve also learned that with repression and genocide, they’re always earlier signs of intentions to destroy. I’ve chosen to write about the “Removal of Native Americans and the trail of tears” because I believe America destroyed our history and reputation. Everyone around the world sees America as a role model but are we truly role model’s? Is our history going to haunt us forever and our dark moments from the past never forgotten? Everyone wants to be a judge but no one wants to be prosecuted, American propaganda can only take you so far, eventually “Double Killing” will have its justice. I wanted to do some research out of curiosity and since as an American it’s important to know about your history, I’ve chosen to write about this. It’s always interesting to learn about other country’s’ past and malicious moments, so why not learn about ours first. Should we be judging and pointing fingers at other countries for their dark moments, meanwhile we have our own? We always learn about what other countries did like; Hitler and the holocaust; Hutu and the Rwanda genocide; but never about American and the “Trail of Tears.” What America did wasn’t right but you don’t hear much of it in today’s history. The Trail of Tears was a dark chapter in American history and happened around the 1830’s. It began before Andrew Jackson became president and signed the “Indian Removal Act” of the 1830’s. He was long before that an advocate of the “Indian removal” as a general in the Army. The signing of the “Indian Removal Act” gave federal government the power to exchange Native American lands in the east for lands in the west. Over 19 million of Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in America before the Europeans came and discovered our country now known as the United

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