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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1  While we are discussing treatment against a race of people that would rival the inhumane treatment we often see in puppy mills and dog fighting events, lets take just a moment to remember the horrific things done to the Native American Indians..... THESE are the people that lost the most, sacrificed the most, suffered the most, and have over the years, shown the most courageous and proud and HUMBLE attitudes. They have NO activist, inciting mob riots, pilliaging and vandilizing and burning and killing, over things they have perceived to not be going their way. Your heart MUST go out to our fellow Native American Indians....do we have any here on this forum? I married a man whose mother was 1/4 Indian.....cant remember what tribe, but out of Oklahoma....a proud, respectful people......so my son has a little in him..... |
And isn't the fed reimbursing them in various forms of leases for minerals and property they originally claimed as theirs, benefits to tribal members for certain treaty obligations, certain tax breaks and other things that in some tiny way affords them a bit of a 1/zillioneth of an effort at payback in some pitiful way? I know my brother works with Indian tribes in New Mexico dealing in tribal natural gas rights and leases and liaisons between the tribe and the fed to come up with fair lease payments and other remunerations harvesting the gas. There are mindbending rules and regulations to follow and other benefits have to somehow sometimes be calculated out of the final amounts agreed for various reasons and so much red tape it is truly amazing. He spend a lot of time with the tribal leaders and fed bureaucrats, trying to bring them together. Then he reports to the state and then back to the gas company.
But there is no similar effort made for the people shipped here as slaves and forced to remain and work without pay or reimbursement in any way for centuries as far as I know. And then when they were able to work for pay, they were often underpaid for doing the same work at whites. I guess it comes down to legal obligations and land claims of longstanding but it doesn't seem the black race got much of a 1/zillioneth of a payback at all except for affirmative action.