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Old 04-26-2014, 06:22 AM
 
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What an embarrassment.

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Old 04-26-2014, 06:44 AM
bUU
 
Location: Florida
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Don't you think that 77 years of celebrating the ethic cleansing that occurred here, in the interest of establishing the states that eventually became our nation, is enough? Or is your point that ethnic cleansing is a good thing, as long as it clears the way for the ethnicities you like to prevail? Or are you in the camp that refuses to admit the truth, and thereby deny that what happened here was indeed systematic forced removal of the pre-Columbian nations from these territories with the intent of creating territories inhabited by people of mostly European extraction, and of mostly Christian persuasion?
 
Old 04-26-2014, 06:48 AM
 
Location: West Michigan
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Don't you think that 77 years of celebrating the ethic cleansing that occurred here, in the interest of establishing the states that eventually became our nation, is enough? Or is your point that ethnic cleansing is a good thing, as long as it clears the way for the ethnicities you like to prevail? Or are you in the camp that refuses to admit the truth, and thereby deny that what happened here was indeed systematic forced removal of the pre-Columbian nations from these territories with the intent of creating territories inhabited by people of mostly European extraction, and of mostly Christian persuasion?
I wish I had written this post. Well said!
 
Old 04-26-2014, 06:52 AM
 
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I say we don't need to celebrate either because it doesn't matter who discovered this continent first or what happened in the past. All of our ancestors migrated here from somewhere else. No one's ancestors were "indigenous" to this continent/country.
 
Old 04-26-2014, 06:53 AM
 
Location: San Francisco born/raised - Las Vegas
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Why is it an embarrassment?
 
Old 04-26-2014, 06:53 AM
 
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Don't you think that 77 years of celebrating the ethic cleansing that occurred here, in the interest of establishing the states that eventually became our nation, is enough? Or is your point that ethnic cleansing is a good thing, as long as it clears the way for the ethnicities you like to prevail? Or are you in the camp that refuses to admit the truth, and thereby deny that what happened here was indeed systematic forced removal of the pre-Columbian nations from these territories with the intent of creating territories inhabited by people of mostly European extraction, and of mostly Christian persuasion?
Was that the ethnic cleansing that the Indians did to each other that you're referring to? Because they were always at war and they would kill every last member of the opposing tribes, babies included.
 
Old 04-26-2014, 06:54 AM
 
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I was unaware the western hemisphere had "indigenous people".

Who are these people who evolved in what would later be called the Americas?

Can they breed with us African sourced peoples? What do they look like?

 
Old 04-26-2014, 06:55 AM
 
Location: S.E. US
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We're redefining everything else, so why not Columbus Day?

He didn't discover America anyway.
 
Old 04-26-2014, 07:06 AM
 
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Was that the ethnic cleansing that the Indians did to each other that you're referring to? Because they were always at war and they would kill every last member of the opposing tribes, babies included.
Agreed tho word was the losing tribe wasn't always murdered across the board, sometimes the younger women and even the small kids were "adopted" into the winning tribe.

Too: had the "white" man done things full on Indian way; there's be far less Indians left in 2014.
 
Old 04-26-2014, 07:11 AM
 
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Just make a white guilt day so liberals can get together to soil their panties and cry.
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