Thursday, September 27, 2007
No control over your own life
How are individuals judged on an everyday basis in our country? Do the clothes you wear everyday or the car you drive define your status? Why do some people make the assumption that if you come from an Indian backround, you aren't well off? Why did Indians have to trade something they've owned for years for nothing? Alcatraz had nothing to offer except for isolation and peace & quiet. The Indians could be alone there. They were being forced to move into the cities in the 20th century, when they had no desire to do so. It was completely unfair. The people of the Unites States, who kicked them off their own land, had everything they needed compared to the Indians that just wanted time to themselves on the reservations. Was it because of the Indians' skin color? The list goes on. What makes Indians so much different from white or black people? Their lifestyle shouldn't have been so unfair for decades. Our country never learns from our mistakes. While trying to help stop genocides and racism ,we wont progress forward to a better country if we keep pushing our own citizens back.
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I understand what you are saying about people draw conclusions to quickly and we should have not betrayed the Indians like we have. However, you say that we have tried to help genocides, and the rest of the sentence is good, it is hard to make a good argument for that because we really haven't in recent memory. The "Never Again" campaign is something we haven't followed really leaving many in Seirra Leone and Rwanda, Uganda, and others homeless and dead. In Kosovo, we eventually stepped in but not before 500,000+ were killed or left without homes. In Asia, and northern Iraq, and other places too we have left out to dry. People and countries can be presumptuous, in good ways and bad.
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