(June 13, 2009 at 1:25 pm)Kyuuketsuki Wrote:(June 13, 2009 at 12:37 pm)bozo Wrote: TRUTH1986 is quite correct, was it not a crime that the indigenous red people of America had their lands stolen from them by the white man?
Not really ... if you look far enough back in the history of any nation you'll find the violent possession of things belonging to others, the ruling classes of any nation are just those whose ancestors were the biggest, baddest motherfuckers on the block.
Moreover there is evidence that the North American Indian crossed to the Americas via a land bridge between old world and new (the Bering Land Bridge) and wiped out the "original" natives so, if you are going to use the logic of original possession, one can argue that they have no greater right to their lands than anyone else (unfortunately those originals no longer exist).
Maybe we should make reparations to the Neanderthals?
I don't know about your assertion re. north american indians killing other indians, but even so that is not the same as what the white americans did to the indigenous red tribes, which was a crime by anybody's definition.
Kyu
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
