But we're not talking about the Normans, Moors or the Vikings. We're talking about white European conquerors who invaded the Americas on behalf of their imperial masters. Part of that invasion included the attempted genocide of certain native groups. Others were imprisoned and culturally raped.
This is not ancient history. As recently as the 1970s in Canada native children were forced to attend "residential schools" where they were systemically sexually and physically abused and were routinely punished if they even spoke their native language. As recently as the 1950s and 60s Inuit communities were forcibly moved to into "modern" communities hundreds of miles from their ancestral homes, all to enhance our sovereignty claims to the far north against the Soviets. So I don't know when the "cut off" should be, but like Africans stolen and brought into North American slavery or European Jews rounded up by Germans in the 30s and 40s, this claim is recent ~and ongoing~ and so is deserving of our government's attention. Justice is possible but we first have to acknowledge a problem. Cheers, frank On 5 July, 2015 4:22:44 PM EDT, John <[email protected]> wrote: >On 7/4/2015 3:47 PM, Eric Weir wrote: >> >>> On Jul 4, 2015, at 1:41 PM, Daniel J. Matyola >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> The UN can, of course, try to enforce its silly decisions, but >>> that would reveal it for what it really is -- a relic of times gone >>> by. >> >> Yeah, off topic. Nevertheless, just to take this example, returning >> the lands claimed, even after adjudication, would at this time be >> awkward in a number of respects. It seems unnecessary, however, to >> characterize the decisions as “silly.” Especially given the fact of >> the genocide committed on native Americans by people coming from >> Europe. We would do well to reflect on that fact and on what justice >> might require as a response. >> > >Yeah, but how far back do you set the cut-off? > >Does Spain have to give half the country back to the Moors? > >Do the Vikings have to give up Normandy? Or will it be enough to give >England back to the Anglo-Saxons. For that matter, how much do the >Anglo-Saxons have to give back to the Celts & Picts? > >Who gets to take over Gaul? Do the Suebi give up the Rhineland? Do the >Helvetii leave Switzerland? > >Are the Achaeans going to have to rebuild the walls of Troy? > >Native Americans are migrants themselves if you go back far enough. >They >just took a different route out of Asia. > >-- >Science - Questions we may never find answers for. >Religion - Answers we must never question. > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >follow the directions. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
