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The US government committed explicit genocide against Native Americans (including Hawaiians), and many of the actions undertaken by the federal and state governments, or allowed to be undertaken by private citizens, against black and Asian Americans fall under the definition of genocide, including, but not limited to: forced internment during WWII, forced sterilization, and the various acts of terror and massacre undertaken by white supremacist organizations since the end of the Civil War. Additionally, the forced, systematic destruction and relocation of black (and, to a lesser extent, Latino, Asian, and Jewish) communities, which has been variously characterized as "urban renewal" and "gentrification", may not rise to the level of genocide, but it certainly carries the scent of it. So does the policy of mass incarceration.



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