The U.S. apparently prepares to repeat it’s racist history of ethnic cleansing and xenophobia, much like the arrests that occurred after the Indian Removal Act of 1830 leading to the deadly Trail of Tears designed by the tyrannical and bigoted white supremacist, Andrew Jackson.
Although this news could be more strategic fear mongering by our inept administration holding executive office today, the danger and parallels are real. I hope anybody subjugated to these actions will use social media to share with the world any abuse of power by the unnecessary and racist task force ICE.
Families who have come from south of our border are not our enemies, but our friends, coworkers, and neighbors. They deserve respect and understanding.
To compare, here’s a quote depicting the brutality of the onset of arrests and imprisonments by an eyewitness to the Cherokee removal, Rev. Evan Jones, a Baptist missionary to the Cherokee Nation who was present in the summer of 1838 during Gen. Winfield Scott’s roundup of Cherokee families.
June 16, 1838: Camp Hetzel. “The Cherokees are nearly all prisoners. They have been dragged from their houses and camped at the forts and military posts all over the Nation. In Georgia, especially, the most unfeeling and insulting treatment has been experienced by them, in a general way. Multitudes were not allowed time to take anything with them but the clothes they had on. Well-furnished houses were left a prey to plunderers, who, like hungry wolves, follow the progress of the captors and in many cases accompany them. These wretches rifle the houses and strip the helpless, unoffending owners of all they have on earth. Females who have been habituated to comforts and comparative affluence are driven on foot before the bayonets of brutal men. Their feelings are mortified by the blasphemous vociferations of these heartless creatures... They are prisoners and their families are prisoners without a crime to justify the fact.” - Jones
#NewTrailofTears
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/11/ice-deportation-sweep-begin-weekend-report/
