- OT: More Weirdness from California - 2 Updates
| Trevor Wilson <trevor@rageaudio.com.au>: May 18 08:41AM +1000 On 16/05/2023 8:37 pm, Peter W. wrote: > Again, as long as one ignores 500 years of history, and as long as one ignores the fact that slaves, children of slaves and native Americans were denied the means of building wealth - education, land ownership, training, military opportunities, mortgages and much more - not for a few years, but for several centuries - your solution makes perfect sense. > Peter Wieck > Melrose Park, PA **Your words provide some hope that there is a spark of thinking remaining in the US. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com |
| John Robertson <jrr@flippers.com>: May 17 04:42PM -0700 On 2023/05/09 11:45 a.m., Peter W. wrote: > I do not agree with reparations in terms of cash payments. But, fer crissakes, the oppression, indifference and results of that oppression and indifference are acutely visible to this day. Something must and should be done - but short of a complete attitude transplant, in a world where 25% - 30 % of the American population adores the Orange Toad, this is unlikely. > Peter Wieck > Melrose Park, PA Thanks for saying the above. Political systems are responsible for the actions of their predecessors for as long as the political system has been in continuous existence. Thus in Canada we try to make reparations to those wronged by previous governments and hold Truth and Reconciliation councils. Our federal and provincial governments were aware of the situation in first nations reserves and did next to nothing. A federal health officer tried to get the federal parliament to pay attention to the death rate and poverty back in 1910 and was pensioned off and spent some of his last years on Parliament Hill handing out leaflets to people to try and get people to look into this tragedy. Everyone involved in this fiasco is long dead, but our federal government (and most provincial governments) has accepted responsibility for the actions of previous legal governments and is doing what it can to change how things are done here. That is how adults deal with past errors. John |
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