Let's not pretend this is the first time America ripped children away from their parents...

[CousinIT]

SAME racism and bigotry at play...

[Leghorn21]

1. It sure isn't, IT

[trof]

5. The infamous Carlisle Indian School.

Well, at least it gave us Jim Thorpe.

[handmade34]

2. let's not forget Native American Children...

we should not be repeating these outrageous acts... but yet here we are


https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/arct.socst.ush.wounded12aschoolsa/taken-from-their-families/

[Xipe Totec]

3. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction

In 1904, a group of New York nuns delivered 40 mostly Irish but entirely Catholic orphans to a remote Arizona mining town to be adopted by local Catholics. What happened next is the subject of historian Linda Gordon's compelling new book: For their act of Christian charity, the nuns were rewarded with near-lynching and public vilification of an intensity hard to fathom today.

As Gordon makes clear in writing so alive that it makes the reader smell sagebrush and white supremacy, the Eastern nuns didn't realize that, in turn-of-the-century Arizona, Catholic also meant Mexican, and Mexican meant inferior. How could a dirty, amoral Mexican (terms that were among the nicer descriptions of the would-be foster parents in newspaper accounts and sworn testimony) raise a white child? To Western whites, the nuns were depraved white-slavers selling children to drunken-whore savages.

Local whites (nearly all Protestant, and therefore ineligible to receive the sisters' charges) rioted and "liberated" the children from their Mexican foster parents, all of whom had been carefully vetted by the local (white) priest in accordance with the Sisters of Charity's well-established system. Many white Arizonans concocted stories claiming they'd seen
Mexicans pay a priest on receipt of a child, or claiming that the sisters promised them children if they'd ante up. As Gordon plausibly sees it, these manufactured memories helped them to make sense of why another white would deliver helpless white children to the clutches of near-animals -- and also legitimized their "rescue" of the children.



https://www.salon.com/1999/12/13/gordon_3/

[UniteFightBack]

4. Same shit, different century. We've been doing this shit to each other since the beginning of time.

We are going in the right direction though, we can't lose sight of that.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Yeah, this country is actually *built* on tearing kids away from their parents. It's a feature,

not a bug. When people say "This isn't America," they're wrong.