Examples Of Genocide In America

Genocide in the United States? Throughout the years there has been the question of was genocide practiced against Non-White Americans, and the answer to that question is yes. The standard definition of genocide is the systematic killing of an entire race of people, however there is other types of genocide such as cultural genocide which is getting rid of a race of people by preventing them from practicing their culture which leads to the culture dying out. The United Nations resolution on genocide has five points which are 1) Killing members of a group, 2) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, 3) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in

Jenson’s evidence as to why African Slavery was a holocaust is stated when he writes “There is no way to exactly know how many Africans died during the process of enslavement in Africa, The Middle Passage, and in the New World.” (Jenson 33). This idea shows that millions of slaves died during the process of slavery and the process of becoming a slave. The type of living conditions that were put onto the slaves while on the boat is enough to be considered genocide alone plus all the slaves that were murdered while enslaved shows that Slavery in America is without a doubt a genocide practiced against Non-White Americans. Jenson’s states that the third example of genocide was “That third racist holocaust perpetrated by the United States – the attack on the Third World to extend and solidify the U.S. empire” (Jenson 35). The amount of crime that the United States performed on the Native American people is inhuman the United States not only destroyed the land of the Natives, took advantage the precious food source of the buffalo and killed thousands of Native American people. The examples two and three that Jenson gives makes the United States guilty based on the U.N. resolution on genocide point 1) Killing members of the

An example of cultural genocide was stated in the book when the author wrote “You don’t have to kill those poor benighted heathen… Just give us a chance to turn them into useful farmhands, laborers and chambermaids who will break their backs for you at low wages” (Crow Dog 30). This idea of taking Natives and trying to Americanize them and strip them from their culture is an example of cultural genocide and a violation of United Nations resolution on genocide point 5) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. Mary Crow Dog described her stay at school as the teachers trying to take away her Natives ways from her and her fellow Indian students, the teacher tried to conform these young Indian Children into Americanized catholic/Christian human beings. Trying to force another culture into another group of people making them lose their culture of their families’ traditions is cultural genocide because as this Indians become more Americanized the tribes of the past will become extinct which is sad for people that were historically killed and robbed of their