The US Navy is apologizing 142 years after shelling and burning an Alaska Native village to oblivion | CNN
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The commander of the Navy’s northwest region issued the apology during an at-times emotional ceremony Saturday, the anniversary of the atrocity.
  • Crewman
    7·
    24 days ago

    Maybe in another 50 years they’ll apologize for bombing Puerto Ricans 24 years after they became American citizens.

      • eldavi@lemmy.ml
        5·
        24 days ago

        there’s a reason why the greatest contemporary minds that this world has to offer all say that the us is the biggest purveyor of violence and inequity that the world has ever seen.

        here’s martin luther king jr saying so:

        …I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent

        he was shot and killed for it and his messages like these are ignored in schools today.

  • تحريرها كلها ممكن@lemmy.mlOP
    41·
    24 days ago

    An apology is hollow without reparations and vowing to never again repeat the same crimes. The US is still bombing native people to oblivion in Palestine and elsewhere, and refuses to pay for its past crimes and return the stolen lands.

    While the rebuilt Angoon received $90,000 in a settlement with the Department of Interior in 1973

    Even in 1973 I don’t think $90,000 was a lot of money or a fair compensation

    • eldavi@lemmy.ml
      3·
      23 days ago

      An apology is hollow without reparations and vowing to never again repeat the same crimes.

      the same people & system that genocided my ancestors out of existence in this country are now doing the same thing to the gazans so a promise to never do it again would be pointless and the only land they might ever get back would become like a native american reservation; where the isreali government has ultimate say.

      i suspect that future gazans will have a similar generational poverty stricken, governmental purse string dependent style of existence in isreal that the native americans experience in reservations today in this country & canada; complete with populations genocided into small enough numbers that it guarantees that they will never again be able to resist the boot on their collective necks like it happens time and again in this country today.