Fall Of 'Heinously Ugly' Racist Statue Marks Another Step In Slow March Of Progress - Rachel Maddow

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8. Are you unaware of Sherman's Native American Genocide?!!!!

Replace a horrendous racist and KKK leader with a figure who was among those most responsible for the focused extermination of Native Americans and near-total destruction of their food supply in one of this Nation's most notorious incidents of targeted genocide? OMG.


https://www.history.com/news/shermans-war-on-native-americans

The general is best known for his for his bloody march across Georgia, stealing livestock and intimidating civilians in one of the most famous campaigns of the Civil War. But after the war, he didn’t retire. Instead, he took his scorched-earth tactics to another war—one against Native Americans. Sherman’s leadership led not just to the extermination and relocation of thousands of indigenous people, but the annihilation of nearly all of the United States’ wild buffalo.

Extermination/Genocide in the "name of progress?" Wow, how much that reminds me of the South's justifications for African American Slavery. And just as damned horrific. THAT is your hero.