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Dick Gregory

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

Dick Gregory

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Dick Gregory is pointing out that history often celebrates the victories of the cavalry as heroic while labeling the successes of the Indians as brutal massacres. This shows a bias in how historical events are recorded and remembered, favoring one side over the other.

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