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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
I'll take whatever I can get for as long as I can get it if someone breaks that agreement. And if I happen to negotiate that my family gets certain things then I expect them to take whatever they can get as well, and forever, if that's how the contract was written.
Do you think you'd do otherwise? If your great-grandfather organized some sort of deal that saw a cheque land in your bank account every month, are you telling me you'd refuse it on general principle?
That's the funny thing about attitudes like this -- the Indians are trying to get what they can. The most money, land, rights, whatever they can get, and people bitch about it to no end. Then they go to work the next day and they try to get the most money, land, rights or whatever for the least amount of work, and it's a pat on the back.
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Fair argument.
Would I refuse free money? Nope. It would be really really nice to have as a supliment to my current income actually. The main difference is, I also have a job, and work for the money, land, rights or whatever I have.
I also don't threaten my employeer (extort may be a better word) if I don't feel I am getting a big enough share of the profit.
no one is stopping the Indians from getting out and going to school, getting an education but themselves. If more would get out and make something of themselves, and integrate into the community, and stop "blaming the white man", then the prejudice wouldn't exist.