"Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the; doctrine, that eh original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward,blood flowed in battles; over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation that tried as a matter of; national policy to wipe out it's indigenous population. Moreover, we; elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today, we have not; permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful; episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned; people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups; herded into impoverished reservations."; Martin Luther King
