Indian Reservation Oil

[CobraEd]

Originally Posted by BeanCounter

My grandmother was full blood Cherokee and my 4gt grandfather was a pretty famous Indian fighter in the Cumberland valley. So here goes my opinion. You don't see reservations for the Celts in Britain nor for any other Europeans who had their ancestral homelands taken by the "barbarians" as they moved westward. So what's so special about the Indians? How far back in history do we go? It's time to get over what happened several hundred years ago and integrate into one society the way that the Europeans have. Screw reparations too.

I agree 100%. Every word!


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[Jamo]

Originally Posted by BeanCounter

My grandmother was full blood Cherokee and my 4gt grandfather was a pretty famous Indian fighter in the Cumberland valley. So here goes my opinion. You don't see reservations for the Celts in Britain nor for any other Europeans who had their ancestral homelands taken by the "barbarians" as they moved westward. So what's so special about the Indians? How far back in history do we go? It's time to get over what happened several hundred years ago and integrate into one society the way that the Europeans have. Screw reparations too.

Well, actually, you do...it's called Wales.

[392cobra]

Texas and the various Tribes that were here worked hard to reach an agreement from 1839-6/27/1874. A final "arrangement" was reached January 1881.
The Tribes "agreed" that their health and general well being were to be found outside of Texas.

By the 1900 Census,there were 460 Indians left in Texas.

[SPF2245]

US House speaker to make landmark Hiroshima visit


TOKYO (AFP) ― House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set this week to be the highest-ranking sitting US official to visit the site of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, which bitterly divides opinion six decades later.

No sitting US president or vice president has ever paid respects to the dead of the US nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, a sore point for many survivors in Japan.

Pelosi will travel to Hiroshima for a meeting of parliament speakers from the Group of Eight major industrial nations. Pelosi, who is second in line to the presidency, is a member of Barack Obama's Democratic Party.

On Tuesday, Pelosi and the other speakers will lay flowers at a memorial in Hiroshima, hear testimony from a bomb survivor and hold discussions on disarmament, according to Japanese officials.


This was about a year or so ago. Japan still won't admit to half the crap they did...so, screw 'em. I'm the first in my family who was born in the US, my family is originally from Europe...I don't feel any need to say "sorry" to blacks/indians or anyone else who believes their great-great grandpa got a raw deal. I don't want history to repeat itself when it comes to slavery, ect. but I also don't feel it's my responsibility to say sorry for events my family had no part in.

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Originally Posted by SPF2245

US House speaker to make landmark Hiroshima visit


TOKYO (AFP) ― House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set this week to be the highest-ranking sitting US official to visit the site of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, which bitterly divides opinion six decades later.

No sitting US president or vice president has ever paid respects to the dead of the US nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, a sore point for many survivors in Japan.

Pelosi will travel to Hiroshima for a meeting of parliament speakers from the Group of Eight major industrial nations. Pelosi, who is second in line to the presidency, is a member of Barack Obama's Democratic Party.

On Tuesday, Pelosi and the other speakers will lay flowers at a memorial in Hiroshima, hear testimony from a bomb survivor and hold discussions on disarmament, according to Japanese officials.


This was about a year or so ago. Japan still won't admit to half the crap they did...so, screw 'em. I'm the first in my family who was born in the US, my family is originally from Europe...I don't feel any need to say "sorry" to blacks/indians or anyone else who believes their great-great grandpa got a raw deal. I don't want history to repeat itself when it comes to slavery, ect. but I also don't feel it's my responsibility to say sorry for events my family had no part in.

Yeah...visit the Nanjing Peace Memorial and see what the Japanese did to those people. That's scary.

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[quote=SPF2245;No sitting US president or vice president has ever paid respects to the dead of the US nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, a sore point for many survivors in Japan.[/QUOTE]

Why should they have?