Liberal Professor Calls Thanksgiving Racist Holiday

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Originally Posted by Danzig

it is more than wanting the land. every conflict, the brits (and the french in the french and indian war) had stoked up the indians to cause trouble. spain did so as well, since they still held florida also, when you look at the history of texas, the brits were very much interested in gaining that area. their involvement is a key reason why the u.s. decided to annex texas as a state. also, the brits still held land other than canada. it wasn't til james polk that the english accepted the boundary of the oregon territory.
and france became very involved in mexico. santa anna didn't lose his leg fighting americans, it was the french.
jackson didn't hate the indians, many had been his allies when he was fighting the indian tribes in the years before the battle of new orleans. the whites had a lot of land compared to population. he just felt they would be used, again, as they had been used so often before. that our enemies would use them to cause us issues.

Wow, nobody's said anything for two days. We must have put them all to sleep with our discussion about Andy Jackson. Too bad. I lilke historical discussions.