Posted on 07/08/2023 10:18:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yep, how many different tribes occupied the very same land, before Ben and Jerry did? More than a few, I am sure.
Free ice cream cones for life. đź‘Ť
Who did Mr. Stevens ancestors take the land from? Surely no one is suggesting that they “created” the land! To the victor go the spoils.
You cant steal back something you stole from someone else and they stole from someone else before that. Its a republic..... if you can keep it. - Ben Franklin.
Someone, somewhere once said, ‘make them live by their own rules’.
Sounds like good advice.
Yep - it seems that none of the folks who want to “give all the land back” don’t realize that there’s almost no real estate on the planet that hasn’t “changed hands” on the whole planet - it ALL belonged to someone else at one (or two or three) time(s).
“Maybe every Indian can get a free ice cream cone>?”
Now that’s what I call reparations.
wy69
Let’s put up a fort
And start buying the place with beads...
Chicago, too. Bring the buffalo back and let them graze on the Dan Ryan Expressway, wallow in the Loop in the shadow of the Sears Tower. The natives will still hunt them if they get caught in a driveby.
Does B&J had a Salted Karma flavor?
How about all the lands those cows that gave the milk grazed on?
Sorry, but I look at it differently. Real history shows tribes “stole” land from other tribes so just how the Hell can it be determined exactly who the genuine “owner” was. Also, the land wasn’t stolen, it was vanquished.
The leftards euphemistic degradation of the language is going to bite them on the ass with this line of insanity, it’s rather entertaining to see.
This giving the Indians back their land thing is like reparations.
What was legal and culturally acceptable centuries ago cannot be turned around to make today’s people pay for it.
People of today were not slaves of a past era, the same goes with those expected to pay reparations in that they never owned slaves today or of a past era.
The Indians were defeated in a war and lost, and those Indians were of a past era. Those that hold legal title to those lands never stole the lands from anyone, they paid someone else who likely purchased the land from yet another and on and on.
Only a leftist communist government would even consider either. And it would not be for the betterment of Blacks or Indians, it would be for the advancement of communism by creating further divisions in society.
“Ben & Jerry’s has not yet publicly responded to calls to return the land its headquarters is situated on.”
Ben and Jerry do not care as they sold the company to Unilever years ago and it’s Unilever’s money, not theirs. Better that natives take Ben and Jerry’s homes, property and money as reparations for misappropriating their lands for the sake of unleashing Cherry Garcia on the unsuspecting public. Yeech!
It wasn’t thousands of years.
“While some say colonized ancestral lands should be at least partially returned, others say that it is impossible to decide which of the various groups to have claimed land throughout history it should be returned to.”
They need to go after Manhattan. $24 was a steal. While they are at it, I believe the New York Yankees need to change its name because it is condescending to people from the north. I would press for that immediately.
I think Ben and Jerry should also give the Indians all of the money they made (and any assets purchased with it) from making and selling their ice cream on stolen land, from milk from cows grazing on stolen land. That would be around $300 million.
So what's the problem? Other than, just wait until the next few shoes drop, there's more than one in the bed.
“Return the ‘stolen land’” is nothing more than the American Indian version of “reparations”. A bit of “victim envy” is clearly in play.
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