Brett Wilkins:

The surreal spectacle of thousands of little children — including toddlers and even infants — torn from their parents’ arms and jailed like animals in cages by US immigration authorities has rightfully shocked the world’s conscience. It has left many Americans asking, “what have we become?”

It’s not what we’ve become but rather what we’ve always been. We are a nation that has, since its earliest days, stolen children from their parents. When a country is built upon a foundation of genocide and slavery, such crimes are inevitable.

We will never know how many indigenous children were killed or orphaned by US policies and actions in the 18th, 19th and even 20th centuries. We do know that founding fathers including Thomas Jefferson repeatedly called for their “extermination,” and that subsequent presidents, most notably Trump hero (and prolific slave owner) Andrew “Indian Killer” Jackson, proved more than willing to exterminate.

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