Parts of this was good but most of the series is based on bashing white settlers. While there were atrocities committed by whites during the settling of the west, this series completely ignores the good white settlers did or the atrocities committed by native Americans and the Spanish. This was a color washed view of history rather than telling the entire story of the western settlement. For that reason, that makes this a poor documentary.
Native Americans weren't some innocent children that never did anything wrong towards each other or white settlers. Saying otherwise is inaccurate. The Spanish who were forcibly removed by whites were also the same folks attacking the white settlers in texas, California and the rest of the southwest.
The true story of history is that all peoples have done terrible things to each other throughout history. Everyone had slaves, everyone mutilated their enemies, everyone displaced another group. It's high time we acknowledge that and get over ourselves. Nobody today has reason to feel guilty for how things worked out or for terrible things done by ancestors from long ago. Nobody alive today is responsible.
Do Egyptians feel guilty for having Jewish slaves? Do Africans on the Barbary coast feel bad for having white slaves? Do Russian communist feel bad for mass genocide? We can acknowledge the past without making folks alive today the guilty party.
Native Americans weren't some innocent children that never did anything wrong towards each other or white settlers. Saying otherwise is inaccurate. The Spanish who were forcibly removed by whites were also the same folks attacking the white settlers in texas, California and the rest of the southwest.
The true story of history is that all peoples have done terrible things to each other throughout history. Everyone had slaves, everyone mutilated their enemies, everyone displaced another group. It's high time we acknowledge that and get over ourselves. Nobody today has reason to feel guilty for how things worked out or for terrible things done by ancestors from long ago. Nobody alive today is responsible.
Do Egyptians feel guilty for having Jewish slaves? Do Africans on the Barbary coast feel bad for having white slaves? Do Russian communist feel bad for mass genocide? We can acknowledge the past without making folks alive today the guilty party.