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Do Southerners Have the Right to be Described as "Native Americans"?
10-7-2010
| comtedemaistre
Posted on 10/07/2010 8:12:40 AM PDT by ComtedeMaistre
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Because Southerners are pioneers and not immigrants, they deserve to be described as "Native Americans". Southern culture and heritage, deserves as much respect as the Cherokee, Navajo, Comanche, Apache, and the Sioux cultures.
To: ComtedeMaistre
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posted on
10/07/2010 8:14:16 AM PDT
by
WAW
(Which enumerated power?)
To: ComtedeMaistre
I was born in America, therefore, I am a Native American. End of story.
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posted on
10/07/2010 8:14:22 AM PDT
by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: ComtedeMaistre
If you and your parents were born here, that makes you a native American. Maybe they meant aboriginal Americans?
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posted on
10/07/2010 8:14:49 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
To: ComtedeMaistre
Since we’re into Southerners vs Northerners, we might want to ask again -— was the civil war between the American North and South about slavery as the standard talking heads want us to believe, or was it about state rights and the right to self-determination?
To: ComtedeMaistre
Hmmm. My family first landed on these shores sometime in the middle 1600’s. The first member of my family born here was born in 1653. Does this mean I am a Native American too??
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posted on
10/07/2010 8:16:31 AM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
To: GeronL
"If you and your parents were born here, that makes you a native American"
If it's good enough for Barry(THE ONE), it's good enough for me!!!
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posted on
10/07/2010 8:17:42 AM PDT
by
wmileo
To: ComtedeMaistre
I was born here. I am a native American.
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posted on
10/07/2010 8:18:20 AM PDT
by
wilco200
(11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
To: GeronL
Yup, I’m a native American. Myself, my parents, and grandparents were born here and that’s enough.
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posted on
10/07/2010 8:19:32 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: ComtedeMaistre
I think Nativist Americans would be a good title to describe these types of Southerners.
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posted on
10/07/2010 8:19:48 AM PDT
by
elhombrelibre
("I'd rather be ruled by the Tea Party than the Democratic Party." Norman Podhoretz)
To: ComtedeMaistre
Whatever you do, make sure you're a protected class so that you can be an “extra special - American.” You know, anything with a hyphen in-front of the American to qualify what you are first and foremost.
You don't want to be “just” an American.
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posted on
10/07/2010 8:19:49 AM PDT
by
Red6
(IMHO)
To: ComtedeMaistre
“Wish I was in the land of cotton ....”
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posted on
10/07/2010 8:20:07 AM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few and let another take his office. - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
To: raven92876
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posted on
10/07/2010 8:20:24 AM PDT
by
stylecouncilor
(What Would Jim Thompson Do?)
To: ComtedeMaistre
If you were born on a piece of land that was once colonized by Spain, does it make you a Hispanic? A Latino? How vague is that?
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posted on
10/07/2010 8:20:26 AM PDT
by
rhombus
To: bamahead; manc; GOP_Raider; TenthAmendmentChampion; snuffy smiff; slow5poh; EdReform; TheZMan; ...
To: ComtedeMaistre
I was born here. I am a native American.
America wasn’t America during the time of the Indians. Those folks went by their tribal names.
Indians alive today, if born in the US can also be called native American’s though they still cling to their tribal heritage and for the most part shun American culture/nationhood.
It’s all very confusing
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posted on
10/07/2010 8:21:41 AM PDT
by
wilco200
(11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
To: ComtedeMaistre
I was born here. I am a native American.
America wasn’t America during the time of the Indians. Those folks went by their tribal names.
Indians alive today, if born in the US can also be called native American’s though they still cling to their tribal heritage and for the most part shun American culture/nationhood.
It’s all very confusing
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posted on
10/07/2010 8:21:54 AM PDT
by
wilco200
(11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
To: SeekAndFind
There you’ve started it!!!
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posted on
10/07/2010 8:22:02 AM PDT
by
ontap
To: SeekAndFind
Since were into Southerners vs Northerners, we might want to ask again - was the civil war between the American North and South about slavery as the standard talking heads want us to believe, or was it about state rights and the right to self-determination?No bites yet? No one wants to do the same old dance?
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posted on
10/07/2010 8:23:15 AM PDT
by
rhombus
To: ComtedeMaistre
This “indigenous” fetishization is nothing but left-wing aryanism (these people are more deserving because of their race and ancestry).
My ancestors landed here well before the United States existed. They fought in the French & Indian War, the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Texas Revolution (including one that fell at the Alamo).
I am as native as a white man can be, and am Texan from a time before Texas existed.
I am no more American than a close friend of mine who was born in Bolivia, immigrated illegally with his mother when he was very young, and worked to obtain his U.S. Citizenship after Reagan’s amnesty.
If he and I are equally American, as we are, I refuse to acknowledge that a certain race of people is more deserving, or more “native”.
SnakeDoc
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posted on
10/07/2010 8:23:15 AM PDT
by
SnakeDoctor
("When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow." -- Teddy Roosevelt)
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