2024 US Presidential Election

[xtsho]

so, the native american blood in me wants reparations and the white blood doesn't.

I'm waiting for them to start cutting the checks. I'll have my hand out. Can't wait to stock up on some more top shelf single malt scotch with the money. I want another high end GPU as well. A trip to the casino sounds fun. Maybe some new rims for the car.

Pay me for injustices committed by people three centuries ago to people I never met. I deserve that money. It's mine! Reparations!

It's party time!

 

[Cannavore]

I love how reparations is unrealistic to Dems while they currently facilitate genocide lmfao

 

[moose eater]

The injustices didn't end three centuries ago for either slaves OR Native Americans/First Nations people.

I have a calendar collection, an abacus, a few history books, and a calculator if anyone needs one for accurizing unhinged inaccurate perceptions.

I won't have my hand out. If there's any scores to be settled for my family, it'll be with the Crown of England and the Irish pagan kings who sold out to them.

But it'd be nice to know that a couple more unpaid debts are out of the way.

As I've routinely told my adult children, "Debt is prison."

 

[moose eater]

Some countries get reparations right....

New Zealand’s Māori fought for reparations — and won

New Zealand has leaped far ahead of others on redressing the wrongs of its past. While the program isn’t perfect, it has lessons to teach the US.

www.vox.com

Canada's handled at least a part of their obligations in different ways, though similar, with processes that began years ago, though they're still finding dead First Nations kids' bodies (often in unmarked graves) around the remnants of the Indian residential schools (many from the 20th century/1900's)..

Alaska and the feds cooked up ANCSA and ANILCA to compensate First Nations people in Alaska with corporate groupings/structures and land awards, but the crux of it was really to get any possible right of way encumbrances out of the way so they could more readily/easily push through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.

Studying Alaska Native History and Alaska Native law with attorney David Case at UAF was another source of valuable information during under-grad that later helped lead to a job with a regional Native corporation, dealing with the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act and social services in general, in 29 Alaska Native villages.