Who are they you ask? The Native Americans. There are only a few thousand of them left. When the white settlers first came to North America there was 1 million of them.
Let me ask you this, if you found a purse owned by a woman and the purse and the woman are both in the same room and you find and pick up the purse. You say, "I claim this in the name of my people and my country! The contents of everything inside is now also mine!" Is that right?
No of course not, but we inevitably did the same thing to the Native Americans with their land and people. They helped the pilgrims in their time of need by teaching them how to farm and tend to the land. How did we repay them? Killing them by the thousands.
I think we could have co-existed with them if we were more tolerable in the beginning of our nation's roots. How can we truly call ourselves the "Land of the Free" if we were made and built on injustices like the Native Americans, slavery, and how intolerable we were to woman? Sure we wised up eventually but there is still work to be done with gay rights.
Anyways the theme of this is, do you think America has the right to call itself the "Land of the Free" and how do you feel about the Native American injustice?
[quote]They didnt know about the small pox at first
If you look up Biological Weapons in wikipedia, they say that a general knowingly sent smallpox blankets to a Native American camp. That was one of the first ones, not counting Medieval times(launching decaying animal and human corpses with catapults)
Sue me for my political incorrectness. You know what I mean. Native American.
All I see is people who don't know what they're talking about. You do know that there isn't much work on a reservation, because there isn't much business. Because there isn't much money.
Well did you know that the moment you step off the reservation you lose almost all benefits of being an Aboriginal and you are now on your own for forever. And since the education system on these reservations is horrible, due to the fact that the reservation has no money, since your taxes DO NOT HELP THEM because they receive no money from the government.
So we get uneducated people who try to leave the reservation, lose all benefits that being an Aboriginal could possibly have, trying to get low paying jobs. Most can't go to college/university because they either don't have the $ or don't have the grades because of their horrible education system.
I don't know how the system works in Canada, But in the US they do get government checks to support them. Maybe they should get a low paying job first to save up money, and then go to school, get a degree and get a good job. I don't see in flaw in this. Or they could work in the Casinos and earn a fair bit of money. From what I got out of your paragraph you want people to pay for them to do nothing productive.
