Considering They're Complicit in Genocide, Should Black People Give Props to the Buffalo Soldiers?

Maximus Rex
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Though they served with distinction for 85 years, (from 1866 - 1951,) the Buffalo soldiers did participate in "The Indian Wars," which is a nice way of saying they black soldiers acted as agents of genocide on part of the U.S. government.

How do we as black people reconcile this? Do we owe Indians an apology? Can we tell them that you had a situation with recently freed slaves who were just trying to make a living for themselves? Do we just go with the a CAC argument and basically be like, "it is what is." Or we do go with the ? excuse that they were just following orders? Personally, I don't have an answer to this ? up question because at the end of the day both black people and Indians were victims of unadulterated savagery that is the racist white supremacist.

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  • JokerzWyld
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  • LordZuko
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    Native Americans were also complicit in genocide. The reason so many Black men were eager to become Buffalo soldiers is because when Indians would raid plantations and othr white settlements they would ? the Black slaves, not set them free but ? them like they would white people's livestock and ? .

    Then you had the other indians who wanted to show white people they could be just like them and decided to purchase their very own limited edition Black slaves, and these same Indians refused to free their slaves after the civil war.

    Then before that whites would often use Indians as guides for slave patrols and even used indians to defeat the black seminoles during th seminole wars.

    Sooooo

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