Source: www.wnyc.org - Thursday, November 29, 2018
One hundred and fifty-four years ago today , the U.S. military opened fire on a group of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in Colorado, killing roughly 200 people, most of them women and children. The Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 was in many ways par for the course, the U.S. government had an interest in who got to be counted as an American, and unleashed fury on those who stood in the way. Last weekend, Border Patrol agents lobbed canisters of tear-gas at Central American migrants, and while the events between now and then are different, the motives are similar. Who gets to call the United States home? Across the cable news networks, the reactions to the violence at the border fell pretty squarely along party lines. On Fox News Monday morning, a former deputy chief for the US border patrol, Ron Colburn, downplayed the incident in an appearance on Fox and Friends. Colburn said, "The type of deterrent they used is OC pepper spray. It's literally water, pepper, and a small amount of alcohol for evaporation purposes. It's all natural. You could actually put it on your nachos and eat it." But one reaction seemed to catch everyone by surprise, an emotional rebuke delivered by one of the president’s most steadfast allies: Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera. On The Five Tuesday night, Rivera expressed outrage at his network's coverage of the growing crisis at the border. "We treat these people, these economic refugees as if they're zombies from the w
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One hundred and fifty-four years ago today , the U.S. military opened fire on a group of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in Colorado, killing roughly 200 people, most of them women and children. The Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 was in many ways par for the course, the U.S. government had an interest in who got to be counted as an American, and unleashed fury on those who stood in the way. Last weekend, Border Patrol agents lobbed canisters of tear-gas at Central American migrants, and while the events between now and then are different, the motives are similar. Who gets to call the United States home? Across the cable news networks, the reactions to the violence at the border fell pretty squarely along party lines. On Fox News Monday morning, a former deputy chief for the US border patrol, Ron Colburn, downplayed the incident in an appearance on Fox and Friends. Colburn said, "The type of deterrent they used is OC pepper spray. It's literally water, pepper, and a small amount of alcohol for evaporation purposes. It's all natural. You could actually put it on your nachos and eat it." But one reaction seemed to catch everyone by surprise, an emotional rebuke delivered by one of the president’s most steadfast allies: Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera. On The Five Tuesday night, Rivera expressed outrage at his network's coverage of the growing crisis at the border. "We treat these people, these economic refugees as if they're zombies from the w
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