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In this specific case, the supreme Court ruled that the removal of the Cherokee was unconstitutional in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia [0]. Andrew Jackson said "Jo

In this specific case, the supreme Court ruled that the removal of the Cherokee was unconstitutional in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia [0]. Andrew Jackson said "John Marshall has made its decision, now let them enforce it" [1], violating the Court's decision and ordering the Trail of Tears. He committed treason, this country was founded in genocide, and Jackson's portrait is proudly hung in the Oval Office. This is why I'm ashamed to be an American. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_Nation_v._Georgia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_Nation_v._Georgia 1. https://sustainatlanta.com/2015/04/02/remembering-the-time-andrew-jackson-decided-to-ignore-the-supreme-court-in-the-name-of-georgias-right-to-cherokee-land/ https://sustainatlanta.com/2015/04/02/remembering-the-time-a...

patrickg_zill 8y ago
Is there perhaps another country you feel loyalty to already, however? (Just a guess, but the only person I know in real life with sentiments almost identical to what you have posted is German and identifies strongly with his German background.)
gyaniv 8y ago
> This is why I'm ashamed to be an American. Then don't be. No one is forcing you. Just leave. Yes, terrible things were done in the founding of America, but terrible things happened all over the world throughout history (including between warring native tribes). But what we need to take from this isn't that our ancestors were horrible human beings, but that they did wrong things and more importantly, we need to strive to learn from it, not repeat their mistakes and generally be better people. > the current property "owners" are criminal trespassers in my view. Then pretty much every single American is a trespassers because basically the entire United States (or North America in general) was settled by native American before the Europeans "discovered" it, and in most cases, they didn't sell them their land.

patrickg_zill 8y ago

Is there perhaps another country you feel loyalty to already, however? (Just a guess, but the only person I know in real life with sentiments almost identical to what you have posted is German and identifies strongly with his German background.)

gyaniv 8y ago

> This is why I'm ashamed to be an American. Then don't be. No one is forcing you. Just leave. Yes, terrible things were done in the founding of America, but terrible things happened all over the world throughout history (including between warring native tribes). But what we need to take from this isn't that our ancestors were horrible human beings, but that they did wrong things and more importantly, we need to strive to learn from it, not repeat their mistakes and generally be better people. > the current property "owners" are criminal trespassers in my view. Then pretty much every single American is a trespassers because basically the entire United States (or North America in general) was settled by native American before the Europeans "discovered" it, and in most cases, they didn't sell them their land.