Slavery, trail of tears, wounded knee, Tulsa massacre, Church pedophiles, murder of blacks by police, etc take your pick. There are lots more to chose from if you really need more.

@WayneDalton @Detritus I don't know that those of us alive in the US now "deserve" that cretin, however our history as Detritus points out is loaded with transgressions against all sorts of weaker peoples. We are certainly paying the price for those transgressions. And truly Detritus has only scratched the surface of the sins of our forefathers. Howard Zinn's book A People's History of The United States was so hard for me to read. I read it a few years ago at the recommendation of my kids. HOW had I not known so much of that? And for that matter why did my kids know it and not me? The real point is that needs to be taught to everyone in the US, and we need to fix things so it doesn't happen anymore. And we need to stop it from happening to anyone. We also need to attone for the sins of our forefathers, the US is not great any longer, and hasn't been for a while.