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I have been watching 20/20 tonight and it has me so moved
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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 469785" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Actually, over the years I've come to realize that people like this poke their heads firmly in the sand because of subconscious fear ( in my opinion ) that if it could happen to one group of people, or several, then someday it could also happen to them. They can't face the face that people can be so cruel or that a society can latch on to such cruelty under the right circumstances and feel like it is the perfectly logical thing to do. Which is why History so often repeats itself. </p><p></p><p>The ones I just<em><strong> love</strong></em> are the ones who firmly believe that Indians are filthy rich because the govt pay them monthly for all the land they took, so they're determined that some great great grandmother in their family tree was a "Cherokee Princess". <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/Graemlins/rofl.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rofl:" title="rofl :rofl:" data-shortname=":rofl:" /> Which of course just using that term shows their ignorance as there were no "princesses" in any native nation. </p><p></p><p>Oh, and I mustn't forget the other ones who attempt to claim native blood to get free cash for college. I nearly decked my Chemistry Instructor, a brilliant sweet man who evidently is also dumb as a box of rocks. He was going to try to claim heritage (he doesn't have any) so that the govt would give him double the cash for his research. He wanted to know why I wasn't using the govt to pay for my school. I told him those fund are set aside to help native people who can't go any other way, and I sure as Hades wasn't going to take a dime from <strong>those who needed it</strong> when I could manage to go to school just fine on my own. Then I had to spend 3 hours explaining that to him. Did I succeed? Who knows. <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/groooansmileyf.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":groan:" title="groan :groan:" data-shortname=":groan:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 469785, member: 84"] Actually, over the years I've come to realize that people like this poke their heads firmly in the sand because of subconscious fear ( in my opinion ) that if it could happen to one group of people, or several, then someday it could also happen to them. They can't face the face that people can be so cruel or that a society can latch on to such cruelty under the right circumstances and feel like it is the perfectly logical thing to do. Which is why History so often repeats itself. The ones I just[I][B] love[/B][/I] are the ones who firmly believe that Indians are filthy rich because the govt pay them monthly for all the land they took, so they're determined that some great great grandmother in their family tree was a "Cherokee Princess". :rofl: Which of course just using that term shows their ignorance as there were no "princesses" in any native nation. Oh, and I mustn't forget the other ones who attempt to claim native blood to get free cash for college. I nearly decked my Chemistry Instructor, a brilliant sweet man who evidently is also dumb as a box of rocks. He was going to try to claim heritage (he doesn't have any) so that the govt would give him double the cash for his research. He wanted to know why I wasn't using the govt to pay for my school. I told him those fund are set aside to help native people who can't go any other way, and I sure as Hades wasn't going to take a dime from [B]those who needed it[/B] when I could manage to go to school just fine on my own. Then I had to spend 3 hours explaining that to him. Did I succeed? Who knows. :groooansmileyf: [/QUOTE]
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