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You've made three distinct points which might have been better offered split up: > We need to end special treatment under the law for any race, white or red or

You've made three distinct points which might have been better offered split up: > We need to end special treatment under the law for any race, white or red or whatever. No race should get special treatment in the United States. While I prefer the phrasing "Nobody should get special treatment." I think most agree with this. > This country should welcome immigrants. I think many agree with this; however in the historical context we're all immigrants here. The Cherokees having crossed some land/sea bridge much longer ago, and Europeans and others arriving within the last 600 years. Also, defining which country you're talking about is crucial. I'm assuming you mean The United States, but a 'Cherokee nation' exists/existed too. > If they don't want to be part of it, we should allow them to leave peacefully. That is the most sensible policy. Leave for where, also Re: my paragraph above, didn't the sea-bound settlers arrive and take over the park they were living in?

tathougies 7y ago
> I'm assuming you mean The United States, but a 'Cherokee nation' exists/existed too. So I actually mean the Cherokee nation. Their platform of excluding non-Cherokee from the nation is akin to the white supremacists of America not wanting non-whites to live in America. If the nation ends up getting its freedom (as I think they should), that sovereign state ought to be accepting of migrants, as the current government of the United States ought to be as well. > Leave for where, also Re: my paragraph above, didn't the sea-bound settlers arrive and take over the park they were living in? As espoused elsewhere, I am proposing that the currently defined indian reservations (with their boundaries set by treaty with the United States) be given the opportunity to leave the Union, and form independent sovereign states. I am not asking anyone to physically 'move', by ship, or car, or plane. I am referring to a figurative leaving -- letting the land leave the sovereignty of the United States and its member states.

tathougies 7y ago

> I'm assuming you mean The United States, but a 'Cherokee nation' exists/existed too. So I actually mean the Cherokee nation. Their platform of excluding non-Cherokee from the nation is akin to the white supremacists of America not wanting non-whites to live in America. If the nation ends up getting its freedom (as I think they should), that sovereign state ought to be accepting of migrants, as the current government of the United States ought to be as well. > Leave for where, also Re: my paragraph above, didn't the sea-bound settlers arrive and take over the park they were living in? As espoused elsewhere, I am proposing that the currently defined indian reservations (with their boundaries set by treaty with the United States) be given the opportunity to leave the Union, and form independent sovereign states. I am not asking anyone to physically 'move', by ship, or car, or plane. I am referring to a figurative leaving -- letting the land leave the sovereignty of the United States and its member states.