The Trail Of Tears: Genocide In America

Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of an ethnic group or nation. Many people think that America never would do anything as atrocious as genocide, but there must be a reason the United States has so many laws about discriminating other races. The trail of tears is America’s own genocide. Also, the concentration camps that Japanese and Japanese- American people occupied during World War 2 were starkly like the Ghettos in Germany. Our most recent president Donald Trump has even started in on the first stage of genocide in present day America with the wall that he wants to build to further separate the American people from another race.

When white settlers first came to America the Indians helped the Pilgrims that came from England on the Mayflower for the first Thanksgiving. In return about 200 years later George Washington solved the “Indian Problem” by making the Indians March from their homes and the land that they

Yellow Xs occupied the doors of their homes to make them stand out further which are examples of hate crimes. Hate crimes fall under the second stage of genocide: Symbolization. These crimes are much like labeling Jews by giving them stars of David to make them stand out. By the time the war hit maximum tension the Japanese descendants in America occupied concentration camps for the rest of the war. Organization is the fourth stage of genocide. President Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order that authorized the military to remove all people from military areas as deemed necessary or desirable. The west coast was the indicated military area and Japanese American citizens represented all people necessary and desirable to remove. From February 1942 to January 1945 people of Japanese descent involuntarily lived in camps with poor living conditions and terrible treatment from their