First Americans please.... After all they came across the Bering strait land bridge between 10 and 15 thousand years ago. While they were first arrivals they didn't actually evolve here but I do agree that European savages treated them in ways that by modern standards would be eligible for the death penalty and I would be happy to have supported.... Thomas Paine would have been reluctant to go that far but would have agreed to deportation at least.

@Lizard_of_Ahaz Deported the colonizers

@michelle666gar Hell yes one reason Washington hated him so much was Paine wanted to give everyone the right to vote and free the slaves. By everyone I include the First Americans, women, and freed slaves regardless of the color of their skin...

@Lizard_of_Ahaz There should have never been slaves here.....

@michelle666gar He felt that way too as do I.... Slavery is counter productive a sound economy and in my eyes a violation of human decency... One of the reasons I despise religion so much is that it supports slavery.

@michelle666gar Do you know the history of pre-1492 Mexicans in their own land?

@yvilletom No, please teach me the history of Mexican's pre 1492

@yvilletom Probably she doesn't it isn't taught in schools you have to study these things independently... To learn them in school you have to study the history of cultures going back 10 to 15 thousand years in both North and South America while going for a5t least a Masters degree in History while even most with those degrees never learn it...

@Lizard_of_Ahaz You're right, I don't, that's why I'm asking for a lesson on the subject, I love learning even though most of it is horrible and heartbreaking.

@michelle666gar You can start with the Aztecs there is a lot of history that intertwines with South America and Mexico there which will bring you up to the period of the Conquistadors. You can find that and go from there online but to learn even a substantial part of that history could take you years.

@Lizard_of_Ahaz The Conquistadores were Spaniards and they bought diseases to the Aztec's and forced them into the Catholic religion and forced them to speak Spanish.

@michelle666gar Yes but before they were conquerors themselves... Study them and then learn about the cultures they destroyed... Going backwards from a known point can make it easier to understand. This is what search engines are for.

@michelle666gar I would have written “pre-1776” but didn’t want you to blame English colonists for what Mexicans did in their own land. To young men it was brutal.

@yvilletom I see, I know the Aztec's had their own slaves and practiced cannibalism.

@michelle666gar, @Lizard_of_Ahaz

Religion supports physical slavery.

Religion requires mental and emotional self-slavery.

@yvilletom True!