(June 10, 2020 at 9:43 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(June 10, 2020 at 9:36 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I am NOT missing history.
"Reservation" back then was a form of segregation as much as separate black schools and water fountains and bathrooms and busses were with blacks and whites.
But if Drich is going to stupidly ask why Natives today are not rioting or looting it is a complete non sequitur.
Between Blacks an Natives, which whites are still fucking over respectively, Natives still have far more control over what little we whites have left them.
"Reservation" is nothing more than a historical word white history has used to say, "Yea, we stole your land, get over it".
If we were being honest about the word "Reservation" then why didn't white Europeans reserve the land occupied by Natives before we stole it from them?
I didn’t say you were ‘missing history’. In fact, I said you were correct about what reservations were. I was just pointing out that reservations today aren’t forced segregation, because no one is forced to live on them. Good thing, since - as I understand it - the conditions on a lot of the reservations are appalling.
I think your comparison with water fountains, etc, is a little off. A better analogy might be the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII.
Boru
Reservations started out as forced segregation. And for that matter the fossil fuel industry is still to this day shitting on their tribal land. Trump and the GOP are constantly trying to rape any land, to get the fossil fuel industry what they want. Just like the GOP doesn't give a fuck about the air or water quality in Flint Michigan.
Others in this thread besides me have rightfully pointed out to Drich that you cannot compare the reaction of blacks historically to the reaction of Native Americans historically.
It is as stupid as when whites try to argue that blacks should always act like Martin Luther King Jr vs Malcolm X.
Maybe it is up to whites to just shut up and listen and learn and not judge?
