Something I read

I read an article which link to Native American's life. I think the author is mainly talking about the treatments of the indigenous Americans which were the Indians and the African Americans. I knew that the Indians have been suffered a lot since the Europeans immigrants have landed on the America and the white people got their land and destroyed their culture and ‘kill’ them in the ‘Eugenic’ way. What really surprised me is that some people even sold the tracts which were originally belonged to the Indians for profits of so-called their own race. Moreover, those ‘some people’ were presidents of America: Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Those two presidents hold the point of view that the Indian people should not survive in the white society, they not only consider the forests which the Indians had relied on for so many years were useless but also forced and segregated them to the reservations.

As for the African Americans, they were included in the white society but with inferior status which were slaves. This was the biggest contradiction that had existed in American society for hundreds of years. When all the white Americans were told that ‘all men are created equal’, the African American were being slaves and doing laborious work for the white people. The white people totally forgot that the blacks made a lot of fortunes for them and the only thing they were afraid about was the slave insurrection. Which shocked me is that after the Civil War, slaves were given freedom from their ‘Massa’. They didn’t think there were free and they kept working for rest of their life. And they even thought their ‘Massas’ were nice and kind.