Posted by agent858 on March 13, 2006, at 0:01:11 [reposted on March 13, 2006, at 7:40:31 | original URL]
In reply to Re: policy, posted by James K on March 12, 2006, at 22:34:01
> The civil right movement was never about our indegenous population.
yes you are right. i stand corrected. i realised my mistake a bit after posting and came here to put it right...
> As far as I can tell, remember, we still haven't had a complete civil rights movent for our indegenous people.
though... they are considered people and thus are covered by the human rights stuff around people - right?
> what country anywhere ever has a history that doensn't involve conquest, rape, genocide? It is the history of the world up till today everywhere everyone. Tell me who?
er... the maori (indigenous peoples of new zealand) were considered 'noble savages' which was a way of saying they were people (as opposed to the view that most colonisers had regarding indigenous peoples / savages being no more than animals.
yeah, they got screwed over pretty badly... there was some raping going on (but thats not just about other cultures - right?) and there was the odd incident of 'please come along to church' and then the door was barred and the church set on fire... weren't trying to wipe the whole race or nothing... just fighting over land.
but they were considered people all along. that was my point there really. the thought that black people are people... well... had been thought before...
but there are still some fine intellectual thinkers in the US... i'm just not so sure that the idea that black people are people too was such a radical discovery is all...
;-)
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