Thread: If you believe in Jesus

Originally Posted by Robinjazz

Judging from your statements about other blacks, it is quite possible you have the problem with your own kind that you believe I do, I have known many black-Americans who despise West Indians. Perhaps, you might fall into that category yourself without being aware.

Care to address his point, or was your only goal with this post to call Writ a racist?

"It is quite possible" isn't calling anybody anything. And, I'm sure he could defend himself.


You keep distorting statements. Big problem, you should address it.

Originally Posted by alanmt

But one ought to have a basic knowledge of Native American history before one offers idealized visions of the noble savage.

The United States was much kinder to the Hopi

than the navaho and apaches had been only a few centuries earlier.

The Navaho were rapacious foreigners who swept down from a thousand miles to the north to displace the poor agrarian Hopi into a smaller range,

the greatest massacre in this hemisphere,

, the massacre of most of the chanes tribe of 60,000 by the guaranis around 1471, was perpetuated by one native american tribe on another.

It even makes the huron viciousness at Fort William Henry seem mild by comparison.

Review the words surrounding "Noble Savage." Was it meant in a positive light. Make up your own mind.


It's possible that the US was much kinder to the Hopi because they supplied Indian scouts to the US army. It's possible that the Hopi land wasn't as rich as the land of other tribes. But, to say the US was kind after rounding up tribe after tribe and relocating them on barren reservations is mind boggling. There is a "motive" behind all actions--all actions.


Don't you folks worry. We'll supply a couple of bags of sugar and flour but you don't wander off this property. Just leave everything to us.

To me, the cruel treatment sounded as the beginning of the "house arrest" program and the "food stamp" program. Native-Americans were proud, independent people who didn't want handouts from any government. They were doing fine before trouble came to them. You can't comprehend that simple fact?

Originally Posted by Robinjazz

"It is quite possible" isn't calling anybody anything. And, I'm sure he could defend himself.

It is quite possible your comments show low levels of critical thinking, that you have been backtracking on ridiculous, indefensible statements for over 48 hours, and that at this point you should either address the counter arguments others have made to your statements which you blithely ignore, or it is quite possible any further comments you choose to share on this topic will somehow manage to find a new, previously considered impossible lowest level of credibility.

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