(June 25, 2018 at 10:04 am)henryp Wrote:(June 25, 2018 at 9:48 am)Joods Wrote: No. And you missed the point entirely.
It's just something funny.
People say "What if the Native Americans didn't let the white man in?"
The question relies on people being self-centered, so they think "That'd be bad!" because they look at it from the white man's perspective. But if you look at it from the perspective of Native Americans (which is what would be applicable if it were a serious point), it would have been WAY better for the Naive Americans to just kill off the white people when they showed up.
Just an amusing thing about how self-centered people are. They identify with their race, not their position in the relationship dynamic.
It's not funny. Not by any means. The NAI were a gracious community of people, extending an olive branch (so to speak) and welcoming in people from a foreign land. What we did to them was utterly disgraceful. And now, thanks to the current administration, we have essentially slapped those wanting to come here, in the face with a double standard. What's good for the white man isn't good enough for the brown man.
You mention race. Fine. Let's throw that out entirely. ANYONE wishing to come into this country, who is seeking a safe haven, should be welcomed here. And many from the south ARE going through actual ports of entry. It is so sad that you cannot see the forest for the trees. It shouldn't even be a question. People from another country were welcomed. Why is it that the WLB's administration cannot extend the same courtesy to our neighbors to the south? What harm are they personally doing to the POTUS? All they want is a safe place to raise their children and a better life for them.
Bringing race back into it now, the bottom line is that we have a racist, bigoted POTUS sitting in office and he is disgracing our country more every day. He is intentionally causing a division in this country - a country that didn't even belong to us in the first place.
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