I was born here - does that make me a native American?
* I was born here - does that make me a native American? *
That was my question too.
We go back to at least the 1700’s, evidence for my family might even go back to the 1600’s. 1700’s on the other side.
Surely, I should be granted special status.
Let’s say anyone who was born here and their families have been here for 100 years legally get to make our own nation so that we don’t have to follow the absurd unconstitutional rules made up since early 2009.
I AM A NATIVE AMERICAN!
Millions of us are. Let’s have our own country and the Dems and the illegals can have the worst parts of the inner cities for their country. Sounds fair to me.
You and Obama who was also born (sic) in Hawaii ;-)
It makes you a native American, but not a Native American. /S
Isn't it funny that, in the supposed service of eliminating advantages held by one segment of society over another (e.g., "white privilege"), Obama and crew want to introduce or strengthen a host of new privileges? Aboriginal Hawaiian preferences would be one; racial/gender/who-knows-what-gender preferences are another; and there's always the old standby, affirmative action. Then there's union privileges -- it's almost impossible to fire a government employee for incompetence or malfeasance; usually they get retired with a great pension. The ultimate end game of all of this is racial and government privilege--are you part of a favored group.
This is a degenerate approach compared with equality before the law. Here we have inequality being written into the law.
I irritate the wife (part Apache) by telling her that I can trace my ancestors back to 1720’s, that makes me as “Native” as anyone.