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The concentration camps (for native americans) were still active well into the 20th century. And even today, most of native americans live in lands ("autonomous regions") that they were send by the government, not their actual land (that their tribes lived in), and there's a lot of wrong-doing and resource grabbing in those areas.

As for the blacks, the legal system offered segregation until the sixties and the infamous "Jim Crow laws".

There were also the camps for Japanese people during WWII: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment

These camps are not the same as state sponsored execution.

That's what concentration camps are. You concentrate a demographic into a camp - it's a concentration of that kind of person. 'Concentration camp' is not a synonym for death camp.

Canadians too: http://www.law.ualberta.ca/centres/ccs/issues/japaneseintern...

Doesn't make it any less worse does it.

It certainly makes it less-relevant to the comment that started this thread.

And, arguably, it is better, because it may mean that we have made some moral progress.