Reparations for Slavery

Noble cause or empty hope ?

The logistics for it are insurmountable.

There will have to be proof of heritage.

This will take DECADES to complete.

It could bankrupt the country.

Big files would be kept on all blacks.

Blacks would be RESENTED & DISTRUSTED.

Employers would become cautious.

Who wants to hire an angry black person?

Beware of those who come as your friend

and lead you to your own destruction

Someone wanting a race war ?

Hey, buddy,

we all had to fight for our FREEDOM.

>>6797048

And about native Americans —

not all were "civilized tribes"

All in all – the world was being explored and civilized

It was inevitable that any one of the powerful European nations would discover "the new world" and want to establish outposts for exploration

There were many wrong things done.

Remember that the "indians" fought on the side of the French and British

and earned their wages for their guns and drink and horses

by collecting scalps.

If my history is correct, this was not a normal practice.

Scalp taking proved that there was a dead white man/woman/child in French territory.

Just like buffalo hunters killed only for the hides –

I'll have to update my history on this.

Civilization was coming big and strong

and the customs of the "indians" were strange and seemed barbaric

and the forces of life clashed… like a hurricane that could not be stopped.

Luckily in the process of all this

there is enough left of their culture to revere.

We had met our ancestors – the hunter gatherers –

and we lost much in the zeal to civilize them.

>>6797126

Why the hell is it

that every time something really profound is spoken

it is said in a way you can't understand

maybe it's the mp3 quality of the recording

that doesn't catch all the tones and accents

Candice Owens has learned to speak clearly and not slur her words

and is a great speaker.

This stuff is historical

and I can't fking hear what he's saying half the time

dang

and Hannity puts me into a trance half the time, too. They have to realize that we cannot get the point until the sentence is completed and the point made. When you don't pause after making a point, or say things that distract from the point you are making

then there is a tendency to wander off into

"what did he mean by that little slide"

while he goes trotting off into a major point.

The point getting lost.

Kinda like

a woman with her breasts showing

you tend to get distracted from a point being made –

you might think, "why did she choose that dress for this event" or

"is she sending signals that she's single" or

"is this the new professional look, low cut dresses and heels"

lots of things get caught up in public speaking

that just makes it hard to follow

>>6797194

https://www.americanheritage.com/who-invented-scalping

Not as barbaric as cutting of the entire head

but barbaric it was –

it was an old indian practice to take scalps of enemies

"The first and most familiar source of evidence is the written descriptions of the earliest European observers, who presumably saw the Indian cultures of the eastern seaboard in something like an aboriginal condition. When Jacques Cartier sailed down the St. Lawrence to what is now Quebec City in 1535, he met the Stadaconans, who showed him “the scalps of five Indians, stretched on hoops like parchment.” His host, Donnacona, told him they were from “Toudamans from the south, who waged war continually against his people.”

Twenty-nine years later, another Frenchman, artist Jacques Ie Moyne, witnessed the Timucuans’ practice of scalping on the St. Johns River in Florida:

They carried slips of reeds, sharper than any steel blade … they cut the skin of the head down to the bone from front to back and all the way around and pulled it off while the hair, more than a foot and a half long, was still attached to it. When they had done this, they dug a hole in the ground and made a fire, kindling it with a piece of smoldering ember. … Over the fire they dried the scalps until they looked like parchment. … They hung the bones and the scalps at the ends of their spears, carrying them home in triumph.

When they arrived at their village, they held a victory ceremony in which the legs, arms, and scalps of the vanquished were attached to poles with “great solemnities.”

>>6797318

this was a quick read and very interesting.

To clarify the short article at the link:

the author found historical writings that showed that scalping was prevalent before europeans settled in america, although not a universal practice

he reasoned that the language that described this ritual was too developed to have been a new practice adopted from europeans

there was a scalp braid worn by braves that was the part of the scalp in the area of the head where normally scalps were taken

you were never to touch a man's braid

it was considered close to his soul

to touch it was an insult

there were many words used to describe the practice and the artifacts used in scalping, which portrays a well-developed ritual that had acrued much meaning