Thursday, March 28, 2013

American Indians: No group of humans are uniquely more noble

Today I happened across the following story:

Hollowed out: US Army fights brain drain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21810074

The story had a reference to the American Indian Wars. Then I decided to check out some wiki articles on the American Indian wars...

302 years of war with the Amerindians...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_massacre_of_1622

Note how the wars apparently started with a massacre in 1622 of humans from Europe.

But we also have the earlier Spanish conquest:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Aztec_Empire

People are people & savages are no more noble than anyone else. Also people born here are just as much a 'native' as anyone else. That's what native means - born in a given place. Also everyone here is a descendant of immigrants, whether it's 100 or 500 or 10,000 or 20,000 years ago. And children should not be saddled nor blamed for the sins of their parents or people who happen to have the same skin color. Again people are people regardless of color. Sometimes noble & sometimes not so much.

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