[Vulcan]

Originally Posted by jammies

Treaties that institutionalize racism (what else do you call it when you treat people of different ethnicities differently IN LAW) are the problem. Therefore, the treaties must go, if we are to see an end to racism. You can argue over how they must go, but if you truly believe all people are should be equal, it is hypocrisy to perpetuate a system that promotes special status based on birth. Of course, if you are of the belief that special status should be proportionate to how "oppressed" a particular group's members are perceived to be, then certainly it makes sense to defend it; this idea, however, is racism of a different sort, yet no less repugnant.

Your suggestion of giving all the land back to the original owners would also end the system, however I am interested in exactly who will pay the compensation to the 29.5 million non-native people who will have to move under your plan. Certainly not the tribes, who apparently don't even have enough money for their own members. I guess all the cities and towns could be burnt down, the farms razed, the highways and streets torn up and the grass allowed to grow back over all of it, so that at the 99 year limit it would all be more or less back in the same shape it was originally taken over from, and thus no compensation owed, however I'm not really sure if that's really an attractive option for anyone.

There seems to a common misconception that there is always a "right" thing to do; in a case like this, there ARE no just ways to proceed, so the solution is to try to minimize the injustice. It is WRONG to segregate a race from the rest of the country, and whether or not those segregated have come to accept the free food thrown at them through the bars in their prisons, and whether or not the process of freedom involves pain, some day it must be done and putting that day off only offloads the problem onto the generations that will follow us.

Man, it just flew right over your head there. I don't think I'll bother anymore.