I am surprised how Americans view Hitler’s Third Reich and South Africa’s apartheid without even glancing at America’s history, without even mentioning the “peculiar institution,” as slavery was called in the 19th Century.
America still has some racial sins that are not noticed as often as they should be. The oppression of the Native Americans bears striking similarities to South Africa’s oppression of black natives, and hardly any detail is given in U.S. history textbooks about the similarities of oppression.
It’s almost as if the U.S. government wants to push it under the rug.
The Japanese internment camps also bear resemblance to the death camps of Europe in the 1940s. These are covered better in U.S. textbooks, but the fact should be clear that the U.S.A. has been as terrible or worse as some of the most infamous governments in history.
