Posted on 11/21/2015 8:50:16 AM PST by Kaslin
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John Stossel had an article about them several years ago, if I am not mistaken.
I guess it’s sort of like the blacks who choose to live in
the black ghettos in the cities instead of coming out to
the sticks, clearing enough trees and building a cabin.
The Indians seem to feel more comfortable on the rez.
Really? So I can claim to be a victim and open a casino while collecting billions in federal aid?
Or do I need the right pigment and check bones?
I only said that if you can make a blanket judgment and say "screw 'em" for something their ancestors did 230 years ago, we can judge you for whatever your ancestors were doing 230 years ago.
Goose, gander.
Fair and square.
You made my point. ALL land currently possessed used to belong to someone else. the reasons for taking it...whether it was 150 years ago or 2000 years ago are varied...whether it be gold...better hunting...or a feeling of manifest destiny.
The point remains: NOBODY is currently sitting on any land that they had from the beginning of time. ALL land used to belong to someone else.
Everyone is guilty of taking land that didn't belong to then...whether they are Cherokee...American...French....British....Italian...Chinese...you name it.
In other words: uncontrolled envy. Anthropology tells us a key evolutionary step a primitive tribe must conquer on the way to civilization is figuring out how to suppress envy. Native Americans will remain primitives until they get a handle on envy.
On the flip side Democrat politicians use envy to get votes. To the extent they succeed Americans get more primitive and less civilized. Humans are only a percentage different than baboons, and only a fraction of that away from turning back into savages. Inflaming envy is playing with explosives.
Wonderful post, reeses! Just shows you that anyone of intelligence who has experienced envy - as all of us has - recognizes its destructive nature.
Perhaps another reason the Indians never developed the wheel no matter how long they were in China and the Americas...
A key point.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
If liberals had a clue that this was in there, they would demand that it be removed.
“...230+ years ago (that would be, your 500+ great, great, great, great, great, great-grands) -â”
Where did you get that? My great grandfather on the paternal side who was a confederate soldier was born 171 years ago. It’s only three generations from him to me. President Tyler was born 225 years ago and according to Snopes two of his GRANDSONS are still alive today unless they have died recently!
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/tylergrandsons.asp
My husband, now 80, tells about a conversation he had with his great aunt when he was a boy.
He was saying that he wished he was an Indian or at least was part Indian.
She told him that there had been an Indian grandmother in the family but not to worry, she was the white folks kind of Indian.
That was enough for him, he was thrilled!
(Make sense. Otherwise, if your great-grandfather is living at 100, with living kids, grands, and a great-grand --- you --- is that just one generation?)
So I guesstimated 230 years at 8 generations, which makes the dads a mean average age of 28 1/2 at the time of begetting.
Ancestor.com.uk (like genealogy sites) considers a generation now to be about 25 years - from the birth of a parent to the birth of a child. The length of a generation in some earlier periods of history they reckon at 20 years when humans mated younger and life expectancies were shorter.
This Townhall dumbass obviously never heard of the 1622 Jamestown Massacre, Prince William’s War, the Fort Mims Massacre, or any of the other routine massacres, kidnappings and rapes along the frontiers from the first days of American settlement.
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