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Bryn Cannon's avatar

I have never understood why the US allows other “nations” inside our nation. I get that in the beginning it was appeasing to carve out reservations for “native americans” so they could continue living as they had, sort of, before the white men “invaded”. But at some point, isn’t it time for the “native americans” to join the rest of the country? For many reasons, including participation in a prosperous, successful society.

All of us have ancestors from somewhere else, and a lot of us are proud of our cultural heritage and practices. That means my mom and I make kringla at Christmas and our extended family are all nice Norwegian Lutherans who laugh a lot and rarely argue. Doesn’t mean we have to still live on farms in rural Iowa like my great grandparents did in the old days, or even still be Lutheran.

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

Isn’t it strange how this only applies to white nations.

There can’t be an evil South Africa, or an evil Rhodesia…

There can’t be an america because we’re a mythical “melting pot”.

And this violates the order of “indigenous peoples”…

But there can never be an “Indigenous” wales, Britain, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Netherlands, etc etc etc… nooooo, those are all cultural melting pots too, full of “diversity”…

But you never see Japan, or China, or Africa, or anywhere else referred to as needing “more diversity”….

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John Cougar Misanthrope's avatar

You make a valid point. Whether you believe in evolution or creation, humanity's history is about migration and colonialism.

The distinction is that contemporary colonialism is the history of white Europeans conquering indigenous peoples globally. Now that generations have benefited from the fruits of European colonialism, it's fashionable to condemn them as "racist".

When I was a young musician I used to play bass with an African percussionist from Ghana. He used to give demonstrations in African percussion to schools in the Detroit suburbs.

One of his favorite lecture topics was to teach children that slavery wasn't about Europeans stealing Africans from Africa. Rather, that powerful African tribes sold subjugated people to the Europeans and profited from it.

Of course, mouths dropped and teachers went nuts when faced with this basic truth. The same is true about the history of so-called "European colonialism".

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

It’s blatant anti white racism.

Notice how Europeans take ALL the blame for bringing disease to the new world, but there’s absolute crickets over Arabs bringing the Black Death to European cities…

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Perplexity's avatar

Hey, you're over-generalizing here, don't you think?

Many, MANY caucasians' ancestors came here as indentured servants, or just plain poor people. Several member of the Irish immigrant family I descend from died of 'black lung' from working in coal mines as indentured servants. They were driven here by the ruin of their original homeland by the English government's abusive policies.

And many of African descent came here after slavery was abolished.

And while people may consider themselves to be indigenous, or descended from African slaves, sometimes they are they are more caucasian than not.

Really tired of the white guilt schtick, here.

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John Cougar Misanthrope's avatar

The history of genocide against Native Americans is well-documented. However, my comment wasn't coming from the 'white guilt' perspective. See my Thomas Sowell and William F. Buckley, Jr. references. History is replete with tales of subjugation.

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Perplexity's avatar

Yeah, you're right -- my bad.

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

At this point I wish my ancestors owned slaves and killed Indians. We don’t have any cool stories.

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Elaine's avatar

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Elaine's avatar

Very good comment. I agree.

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Michele's avatar

Some native americans (like my ancestors) were all : "fuck you and your 'blood quantum'; 'sovereign nation' reservation = prison. Don't need no invader to tell me where and how to live." They assimilated, but not to the extent of trusting fed gov't.--unlike so many other so-called 'citizens' we have seen these last couple years.

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John Cougar Misanthrope's avatar

In practical effect, it's no different from what the apartheid government in South Africa did beginning in 1977 when it created 'independent homelands' in areas that were predominantly populated by African tribes. These 'homelands' - Bophuthatswana and Ciskei, for example - were only created to further advance the government's apartheid agenda. Guttermouth's Option 2, is really what should take place.

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

Spent time in South Africa. The most common phrase I was told, y everyone I met, white, non white, Indian, black… they all said the same thing.

Me- “I love your country, it’s so beautiful.”

Them- “It was better when the whites ran it.”

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John Cougar Misanthrope's avatar

It's why Ian Smith was praised as a visionary and patriot within five years of Zimbabwean independence and ZANU/Mugabe rule. Rhodesia was what it was but it was also the 'breadbasket of Africa' from the time of its 1965 UDI and even after the creation of Zimbabwe. Smith, et al., warned the world that Mugabe was a Marxist who would destroy the country which is what happened. The same thing is occurring in South Africa.

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

Exactly.

It’s the magical dirt theory.

There’s no difference between peoples or cultures at all. It’s just that whites live on magical dirt. And this magical dirt creates crime free neighborhoods, innovation, great farmland, and periods of progress and political peace. The problem is, is that whites are the only ones who know where the magical dirt is, and they hoard it for themselves, and if the whites could be removed, then others could also have this magical dirt for themselves.

But then they always get this magical dirt, and discover the hard way, that magical dirt is a fairy tale, and it takes great sacrifice to create magic dirt, and the whole thing collapses under the weight of the lie. But in response, they’re lied to even more, they cling to their magic dirt theory. “Oooh the whites stole the magic dirt when they left Rhodesia. If we could all move to London, that’s the homeland for the magic dirt.” Then London fails.

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HardeeHo's avatar

As our host observes "farming self-harm".

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GenEarly's avatar

History is never simple, because people are complex. Whatever this historical garbage is must be from a gubmint skool edmencation your were fed.

" I get that in the beginning it was appeasing to carve out reservations for “native americans” so they could continue living as they had, sort of,"

Northern Georgia, "Trail of Tears" 1830's under President Andrew Jackson. Gold discovered in Dahlonga, Ga. 1828 on "Cherokee Land".

Earlier in 1804 Chief Vann was a prosporous Cherokee half breed plantation slaveowner. He had President Madison as an overnight guest in 1819.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/716353884455000252/

President Jackson sent them all packing to Oklahoma, except for a few "Renegades" in the NC mountains.

For some reason I haven't deciphered yet, the Cherokee fought for the Confederacy in GA and OK/AR in the 1860's.

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Kimberly Kay's avatar

Independence from a distant centralized big govt is likely the reason anyone fought for the confederacy

It’s not true that the civil war was fought to end slavery that is one big lie.

that’s as big a lie as pretending

the only reason to not support Obama was because “...you were a racist who didn’t want to see a black man in the White House”

I’m not a racist but I did not support support Obama because he was & remains an anti American who intentionally implemented policies designed to destroy this country from our national security to our history all of it & this admin has reinstated obamas Destroy America Policy

Fuel prices have “...necessarily sky rocketed” just like obama promised & racial relations have receded back into pre-civil rights era...

The head of the cia was quoted back in 1950something as saying that when every thing that every American believed was not true they (cia) would know they had succeeded in their operation.

I think they succeeded some time ago

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GenEarly's avatar

Slavery was a prime issue. as a proud Confederate I will admit that from all of the historical evidence. That Lincoln had to provoke a Civil War over Ft. Sumter was a DC Ruse the Secessionists fell right into. That is all water well past the bridge.

Obama the Bolshvik Upsurper is much more relevant along with the DC Deep Statists of repubRats and democRats. Cia, FIB, DOJ, IRS, EPA, ETC have all formed an independent 4th Branch of Feral Gov.

Can anything be done about it? Is The Question.

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Kimberly Kay's avatar

Lincoln is famous for NOT FREEING NORTHERN SLAVES

For stating that if he could win the war without freeing one southern slave he would do it

THE CIVIL WAR WAS ALL ABOUT DESTROYING CONSTITUTIONAL U.S. “STATE’S RIGHTS” & therefore the u.s. constitutional protections of all of our individual rights died when we became the American Empire.

Ending the constitutional United States of America

‘Fundamentally Transforming’ that system

into the centrally controlled= “American Empire”

Which effectively took each and every state & made ‘em all ‘a little bitch’ of the now giant, all powerful federal govt.

The creation of the 2 party system was also just another way to move power & control

in fact FROM DISPERSED AMONG THE VARIOUS STATE HOUSES

to D.C. federal aka central control… with the 2 party system + owning the narrative =the tyrannical thugs in all parties locked down control over any power control retained by the states - by ensuring only THOSE who followed the party lines would be allowed to win office…

Lincoln was the first Republican president proving that the republicans

the grand ole party

HAVE NEVER BEEN THE POLITICAL PARTY OF ‘small govt, low taxes, individual rights’ etc… as Lincoln was the one who destroyed the original constitutional arrangement FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED that constitutional arrangement of u.s.a. into the AMERICAN EMPIRE-

centrally controlled

by a tiny group of thugs in both parties centrally located in the District of Columbia.

from that time in history?

American politics has been all about moving the power from the states to the feds

in every area of life.

THAT is the truth about our history…

All the crap about pretending it was all race based is as big a lie as pretending the ‘Democrats represent the working man.’

Slavery ended here for the same reason it ends everywhere through out all of human history- MECHANIZATION MODERNIZATION the cotton gin freed the slaves

The ability to provide the lifestyle with mechanization without needing human beings to perform those tasks freed the slaves Dr Thomas Sowell the famous American economist wrote at least couple books about the reality of slavery in America - in spite of his unimpeachable facts & brilliance showing up the race baiters & their lies & in spite of him being black- virtually no one knows the truth he wrote down & published 20+ years ago…

The indoctrination is so strong to believe the popular LIES that even when people are told the truth about this or anything else?

THEY DO NOT BELIEVE IT.

Like watching idiots celebrate July 4th a couple months after their 14 year old daughter dies OBVIOUSLY FROM VAERS but requiring anyone attending their Independence Day party to prove they submitted to the Nazi style injection schedules for genetic md experimentation…

People believe what they want to believe for reasons of their own & the self evident facts are just irrelevant to them.

People believe what they want to believe even when faced with a mountain range of evidence proving their beliefs are not only wrong & obvious lies but disabling & deadly.

The German citizens en masse proved this for years during the rise of the third Reich & the Russians during the dekulakization & the Chinese during the Maoist’ great Leap Forward’ etc…

The North American Continent provides no immunity from the human condition & “it” is happening here -

Whether my fellow Americans want to believe it or not.

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