I mentioned to my black friend I may have an Independence day party. She said fuck 4th of July so I told her fuck you. Proceeds to tell me a black man doesn’t have freedom, America and white people are racist, stole the land from Indians among other irrelevant or straight up bullshit including gaslighting about juneteenth. Says history should be rewritten. Had to say I’m not being friends with someone racist against me. Have to stand up for America before anything. It seems like fake news is wrapping up the child exploitation and corruption with the idea of America (and Trump) and has to be replaced with communism. Anyway I’m happy to have fellow pedes to communicate with on here, so thank you.
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People are historically dumb and have zero awareness of what populations back then looked like. In 1730, the total population of the colonies was 655,000. Places like Boston and New York had populations like 13,000 and 8,500.
Think about that. We have individual cities with larger populations than the total number of colonists in America back then.
America is massive. You didn’t have to steal land because there was plenty of unsettled wilderness. Many colonists died just trying to establish settlements.
So what makes it “their land”? Are they talking about a particular tribe, or just Indians? Because remember, they were killing each other over land before the colonists arrived. It was largely wilderness though, so I’m not sure where ownership comes into play.
Some questions I’d ask: How much of the land was theirs? Did they own the whole continent? What gives them ownership exactly?