Treatment of Native Americans Podcast

    In the podcast you can clearly see the mistreatment of certain races has always been deeply ingrained in the history of America. Even as we look at today's society we can see how racism overtime has become a part of our system and we accept it, turning a blind eye. Luckily we are going through a time realizing our society is inherently racist and looking to reform and fix this. For some reason we have an inherent sense that we are the superior race and have the ok to enslave other races who we deem "below" us. In the podcast they spoke about the original deal with the Natives how both sides of the deal would provide things for the other one but that quickly turned into the Spanish forcing the natives into doing things for them for free which started the slavery in the Americas. The Spanish settling the Americas thought they had a religious reason for colonizing the Americas and keeping and enslaving all the people who had currently inhabited that land.

    We see how terrible the Spanish treated the Native Americans, yet as we look back at history we keep repetitively treating non-white races poorly. Instead of hiding these times in American history I feel like it is important that we show the truth in the history books as if we keep playing it off like it was no big deal we'll continue our same pattern of poor treatment. It is prudent that we don't sugar coat the past so we can look in disgust at the treatment of other races and hopefully come to a unanimous conclusion that we should never allow it to happen again. 

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