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We lost our way hundreds of years ago (Original Post)
SHRED
Jan 2019
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All I can say is yes.
I absolutely seeing RED tonite over this racist incident in DC.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)2. I'm in rage
These assholes are getting bold.
Indoctrinating their children to hate.
Takket
(21,425 posts)3. So, did we ever have a "way"?
That goes pretty much all the way back to the colonization of North America. Maybe we never lost our way (goodness). Maybe this is just the way it has always been.
roamer65
(36,739 posts)4. Native Americans should have killed the Europeans coming over.
Seriously, things may have been better for them if they did.
brush
(53,474 posts)5. Most indigenous people, most people actually, are welcoming...
of strangers. The strangers however, did not come with kindness.
What is it about the pale faces?
roamer65
(36,739 posts)6. Euros brought their culture of conflict and genocide with them.
I am descendent of that strain of human and its history is not pretty. We owe a LOT more than apologies.