Historian Joshua Zeitz wrote on X, “This guy represents California in Congress — one of 9 current states whose territory the US won in part or whole during the Mexican War of 1848.”
“These guys spent so much time erasing American history that they forgot to read it,” wrote BET host Marc Lamont Hill.
Not included in this article is the numerous times the US Government would kill a bunch of indigenous people and drive them off their land. Or the times we’d forcibly relocate them to small pockets of uninhabitable land and settle where they used to live.
Or that Illinois was colonized by a guy who had to sneak by the nearer native populations as they had realized he was a fraud and wanted to kill him for defrauding them.