Thursday, December 25, 2008

Ethnic Cleansing in America

To talk about American history and race relations without using the word Ethnic Cleansing is either ignorant or dishonest. Though this word is easily applied to foreign tragedies, it is not ever used to describe these very same acts and attrocity's when committed in our own us history.
I added the Tulsa Race Riots, The Rosewood Massacre, and the Cherokee and Choctaw Trails of Tears to the Ethnic Cleansing Page on Wikipedia. These were wiki pages already existing, and listed on other wikipages on "Mass Racial Violence in the US", and on "The Trails of Tears"

There are many more important US events to add to this list, and I would love help building that resource. I think it would be specifically valuable to create a list of US incidents of Ethnic Cleansing on the Wikipedia, And to expand this discovery to include a Wiki page on systematic oppression that would recognize all the incidents of institution oppression under the policies "Urban Renewal".