To only count the direct deaths of the forced march and not the deaths resulting in having your land stolen and along with it your ability to reproduce your society is straight up genocide denial.

After the Civil War we very nearly had a moment when we could have maybe did something real for racial equality beyond anything we’ve seen even up to the present day.

And this is absolving responsibility of all the people who maintained slavery, which one could argue is even worse than jim crow.

kinda hard to argue apartheid is worse than genocide imo

I don’t have to imagine that I live in the US

You’re wrong about literally all of that.