Reparations for what? Life before contact was a hellish stone-age existence of constant war, slavery, and hunger. How about appreciation for democracy, rule of law, security, education, dependable food, modern medicine, dentistry, woven clothes, metal tools, consumer goods, and wealth that their ancestors could not imagine? There was lots of blood on the hands of aboriginal ancestors.
After tax breaks, scholarships, and $5.5 billion in payments this chief wants more. And they call whites 'greedy'.
Why the hell are we paying them if they're in their reserves then? They have tax exemptions and gets all the services we get and basically contribute nothing in return.
This act made much more sense than giving them territories and royalties on our (pretty much) seperate economy
Too bad we can't ship them to Africa or something like that. Then they could go live like the ancestors
Reparations for what? Life before contact was a hellish stone-age existence of constant war, slavery, and hunger. How about appreciation for democracy, rule of law, security, education, dependable food, modern medicine, dentistry, woven clothes, metal tools, consumer goods, and wealth that their ancestors could not imagine? There was lots of blood on the hands of aboriginal ancestors.
After tax breaks, scholarships, and $5.5 billion in payments this chief wants more. And they call whites 'greedy'.
They have the market cornered on 'black market' weed. To me that's valuable, the government stuff is garbage. That and moccasins, shits comfortable
Hear hear. You said it.
Why the hell are we paying them if they're in their reserves then? They have tax exemptions and gets all the services we get and basically contribute nothing in return.
This act made much more sense than giving them territories and royalties on our (pretty much) seperate economy