Moments of Permanence - Baseball to historical atrocities in about one line: I 0wnX0r ur h1story

From: sami Date: May 21st, 2009 02:55 am (UTC) (Link)

I don't want to traumatise you, but I wasn't even thinking about the Mexican War. The Texas Rangers' record of dealing with the Indian population is. Um. If I tell you it involves using dismembered women-specific body parts as saddle decorations, do you start to get the idea?

I think the reason I have such a deep and abiding hatred and loathing for the Texas Rangers is that other groups aren't still going, and you don't have, say, the German national soccer team being called the Deutschland Gestapo, or any equivalent of Walker, Texas Ranger. The crimes are so unacknowledged.

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From: smillaraaq.livejournal.com Date: May 22nd, 2009 12:54 am (UTC) (Link)

The lack of acknowledgement is sadly endemic. Twenty Medals of Honor -- the highest military honor possible in the US -- were given out to soldiers involved in the Wounded Knee massacre, and they've STILL never been rescinded.

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