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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

I never disputed the facts of our remote past, half a lifetime before I 
was born.  This fellow said that townships were "based on" 
reservations.  I have no idea whether that's even true, but I do know 
that "based on" is one of those slippery phrases you use when you want 
to create a false analogy, like "harkens back" or "smacks of".  For 
instance, having Mexicans stay in their own country might "harken back" 
to Nazi Germany, as one might hear in sociology class, except for the 
fact that no one's being killed.  So when people who are not Americans 
go online later, to see whether reservations still exist, and sure 
enough they do, unlike townships, no one's probably going to tell them 
what's obvious to you and me, that no one's required to be on a 
reservation at all.

Compared with the choices facing many of our city kids nowadays, kids 
disconnected from any family and culture, who are living in sewers in 
some cases, isn't it a bit like the proverbial silver spoon, now that 
they're not prisons?

Bill

Lynda wrote:

> Bill, supposedly you have a college education.  Thus, you should know that
> presenting historical facts (F-A-C-T-S) is not synonomous with paranoid
> (concerns for one's well-being, beliefs of threats to oneself or property,
> belief in conspiracy theories).
>
> Fact:  reservations were the equivalent of jails and residents were not
> allowed beyond the boundaries.
>  
The first time Soweto or any township ceased to be a nighttime prison 
was barely over a decade ago.  When was the first occasion when indians 
were allowed to come and go from some reservation?

> Fact:  1928 federal laws were passed designating American Indians "humans"
> and allowing them the right to vote and participate in legal actions.
>
> Thus, facts provided for your information, FYI.  And, I'd suggest you do 
> some reading on a couple of reservations which routinely are locked down by 
> the feds.  That means it still goes on today.
>  
Was this an occasion when a suspected criminal was loose?  The same 
happens all the time in our cities, when the self-appointed gods take 
over a whole neighborhood.


> Lynda
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Jones" <billj AT harborside.com>
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>  
>
> > I figured you'd provide something informative, if paranoia-based.  My,
> > people were certainly ignorant back then!  He's telling people who
> > wouldn't know any better that it's still going on today, from the way he
> > worded it.
> >    
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