RaleighReloader
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2) I receive my compensation from the Bureau of Indian Affairs and/or the Shawnee Nation for killing two of my GGGGGGrandfathers in the mid-1700's and enslaving my GGGGGrandfather from age 9-18.
Our First Nations people were (and continue to be) treated terribly. I would have no problem with our government apologizing to them too.
This concept has been superseded by other government programs. Remember, it was President Andrew Johnson (a southern Democrat who believed the Constitution protected the right to own slaves - and he did) who cancelled the order to provide 40 acres and a mule to former slaves after the Civil War. That ship left the dock in the late 1860s.
So the correct answer is to just shrug our shoulders? The ship certainly didn't leave the dock in terms of slavery still affecting peoples' ability to live their lives. Even well past the Civil Rights movement a hundred years later, we can still see how African Americans are at a distinct disadvantage in this country.
The War on Poverty, affirmative action and myriad other handouts have made the decedents of former slaves the envy of all the third world. Our definition of poverty level equals the middle class for most of Africa and a large portion of the rest of the third world.
What a charitable Christian attitude. "Well, you're better off a poor Black here than you would be if you were in Africa, so shut up and take your paltry handout, and be content knowing that you'll never enjoy all of the social and economics benefits that Whites do."
Mike