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I wonder for how long society should "pay" for past mistakes. For example – how long should the Indians be able to live in North America tax free? How long should we pay for the crime of slavery? How long should we "discuss" the Holocaust? I know we need to remember so we don’t repeat these terrible times in history. But do we have to beat the subject up——–keep talking about it and blaming people for what happened years ago? Most of us weren’t even alive! Should we just drop the subjects and leave it to the history books? Why should the Indians live on reserves where their lives are not good at all? They stay because they don’t pay taxes but it seems there is very little other benefits. I should probably read up on these subjects as I have a very simple outlook. They say that the sins of the fathers fall on their children. Should this be so or should the past stay in the past?
One New Zealand politician described in one interview that everyone should just get over the holocaust already, and he is now taking “extended leave”- I think respect for the dead should be forever a tribute, because forgetting them would be forgetting the horrors that could so easily befall this world again, but as for aboriginal land issues- I say deal with it, and then let bygones be. random,
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sometimes I think we need to step into someone elses shoes and walk that mile before we really understand how they feel take care of you
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I feel the past is the past. I had nothing to do with slavery or the Indians plight, and I have no reason to feel guilty over it. Leave it in the history books and learn from it.
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Indians are not able to live the way their people once lived, because that way of life was stolen. This was their land. White people thought they had the right to claim it simply because their ship landed here. Well… it was already someone else’s land. What part did “whitey” not understand? How can you decide you own something that someone else already lives on? Now the Indians have “the…
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…”right” to go and live White Man’s way…. buying a house, getting a job doing white-man-stuff. Sure. But they no longer have the right to live the way their people lived for thousands of years, living and hunting off the land. Because Whitey decided he owns the land now, even though no one ever said “ok, you can move in and own this.” Please understand, I’m not ranting at you…. 🙂 ….I’m…
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..ranting about something I feel very deeply about, is all. I do not like it when people misuse others and steal whatever they want to, saying they have the “right” when they don’t. And I think the Indian’s natural way of living was better than life in this hi-tech industrial nation, and I would choose the old way too, if it were still available. hugs, Weesprite
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I have to agree… but, then, I’m of European descent, so my perspective is a little different from those whose ancestors went through the atrocities. It’s hard to know what’s right in this situation…
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its a tricky subject and I acknowledge your opinions…but some of those situations are far more complex that many realise. The Native American people were totally disenfranchised,for example, and even if they don’t pay taxes still they have lost most of their land and freedom. What price can be put on that? I won’t even mention the holocaust! I do agree however there boudaries & limits. hugs
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