Brian, The white man did steal the land from the indigenous native Americans. The white man did buy slaves from African tribal leaders, and ship them to the new world, stacked up like bales of cotton. A certain amount of restribution is due these people. The American Indian people never had alcohol before the white man seduced them with it. Now whose fault is it that alcoholism is such a problem on reservations? They use their treaty checks to get drunk because the white man has spoiled their hunting grounds, and taken away their ability to feed their own families, and above all, have stripped them of their dignity.
In Canada's neighbor to the south, many of the tribes are regaining their dignity, lowering the alcoholic statistics, working for and getting college degrees, entering the main stream of business of all fields, and even buying the land that the white Europeans stole from them. I find it very amusing, the one of their best forms of income, is letting the white man throw his money their way in casinos.
The white Europeans were getting drunk centuries before the Indians ever knew that alcohol existed. Some of the Indians in the US, grew tobacco for ceremonial use which was safe to smoke, but it took the white man to use additives to make them unsafe, and addictive.
I do think that the owner of a business should have the right to hire, or not hire, anyone they please, but in the US, the government has taken that right away. If you tried to act as you speak around here, you would find your butt in jail. I don't agree with that, but we must obey the law. You know, render unto Caesar, and all that BS. |
