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Will there be reparations or is the US going to keep the lands? Is it OK if the Chinese do it now and teach their schoolchildren about it 100 years later? Look
by lmz 5y ago
Will there be reparations or is the US going to keep the lands? Is it OK if the Chinese do it now and teach their schoolchildren about it 100 years later?
Looking from the outside this just looks like pulling up the ladder. "Oh we did kill them off but that was years ago. These other countries, though..."
- _-david-_ 5y agoThe US gave land and money to tribes. They held fair trials and often lost. Just recently half of Oklahoma became tribal land because of a lawsuit.
- emptysongglass 5y agoFor others as interested in this ruling as I was here is a link to a story that covers this verdict [1] [1] https://www.npr.org/2020/07/09/889562040/supreme-court-rules-that-about-half-of-oklahoma-is-indian-land https://www.npr.org/2020/07/09/889562040/supreme-court-rules...
- Riverheart 5y agoHow old is China? How big is China? Was it always that big? Everybody just come together in a big kumbaya circle one day?
- emptysongglass 5y agoI don't know what you expect to be done that hasn't been done already. Navajo Nation exists and it's 17,544,500 acres of land for the Navajo people. Native Americans qualify for college benefits that others with citizenship to the States do not qualify for. Compounding the dilemma of how a nation makes reparations for the sins of their mother's mother's mother's there just aren't many Native peoples left to make reparations to. Your argument, at face value, offers little in the way of solutions. On the contrary, you make an enemy of my argument. Do you seek to apologize for the new makers of genocide today? Or what is the purpose of your comment? Much as the Buddha focused on present action as a tool for change, that is what we must do now, collectively, so we do not repeat the atrocities of yesterday today.