[Vision2020] Black History Month

[Paul Rumelhart]

I suspect they had laws even if they didn't codify
them with the obsessiveness our culture displays.  I
also suspect that we at least infringed upon one or
two when we fought them, killed many of them,
conquered them, and forced them from the land they had
lived on all their lives and onto reservations.

Not to put too sharp a point on it either, but we just
didn't give a damn.  
 
Paul

--- "g. crabtree" <jampot at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> Not to put too sharp a point on things but, for
> something to have been 
> illegal there would have had to have been a law
> against it in the first 
> place. There was not. When Europeans arrived and
> commenced to settling this 
> country the indigs had no written language or
> concept of property much less 
> of sovereign country. To have asked for a by your
> leave would have been 
> similar to asking herring for permission to swim in
> their ocean. To make the 
> claim that we came here illegally is insupportable.
> 
> g
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Paul Rumelhart" <godshatter at yahoo.com>
> To: "lfalen" <lfalen at turbonet.com>; "Matt Decker"
> <mattd2107 at hotmail.com>; 
> "J Ford" <privatejf32 at hotmail.com>; "Tom Hansen"
> <thansen at moscow.com>; 
> <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 7:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Black History Month
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> When you get right down to it, you could say that
> this
> nation was founded on the backs of illegal
> immigrants.
>  Unless the colonists applied for VISAs from the
> natives, they were there illegally.  To harp about
> the
> distinction now seems hypocritical.
> 
> I'm not a big fan of having these PC "Months",
> mainly
> because of the reasons stated.  Why single out one
> group?  It becomes a contest to see which one has
> the
> most political clout at any one time.  I like the
> idea
> of an "American History Month", one devoted to all
> aspects of American History.
> 
> Paul
> 
> --- lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
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> > Good point Matt
> >
> > Roger
> > -----Original message-----
> > From: Matt Decker mattd2107 at hotmail.com
> > Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:12:12 -0800
> > To: J Ford privatejf32 at hotmail.com,  Tom Hansen
> > thansen at moscow.com, vision2020 at moscow.com
> > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Black History Month
> >
> > >
> > > I agree. We should acknowledge all who have made
> > this a great country. We not only should have a
> > Native American history month, but also Irish
> > > American, Chinese American, Italian American,
> > Japanese American,  Arab American, German
> American,
> > Mexican American, Italian American, and months for
> > all the races that have brought this nation to
> what
> > it is.
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> > > Or we could role it all into one big fun month.
> We
> > could call it American history month. One that
> > strives to acknowledge all races and what they
> have
> > done to make the United States the best place to
> > live. This land was built on legal immigrants, all
> > of which should be recognized.
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> > > Matt
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> > > From: privatejf32 at hotmail.com
> > > To: thansen at moscow.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
> > > Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:03:26 -0800
> > > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Black History Month
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> > > Thank you!  Just what I was trying to say -
> Black
> > History Month gets the publicity and the other
> > "minorities" just get a one-time notice and then
> > forgotten.  Since this is a MAJOR part of our
> > population as well as a main group of our
> > developments, this is just sad!
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> > > J  :]
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> > >
> > > From: thansen at moscow.com
> > > To: gussie443 at hotmail.com;
> > privatejf32 at hotmail.com; chasuk at gmail.com;
> > vision2020 at moscow.com
> > > Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Black History Month
> > > Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:37:42 -0800
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> > > >From the Defense Department website at:
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http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/nativeamerican01/proclamation.html
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> > > â?oNOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President
> > > of the United States of America,
> > > by virtue of the authority vested in me by the
> > Constitution and laws of the United States,
> > > do hereby proclaim November 2001 as National
> > American Indian Heritage Month. I
> > > call upon the people of the United
> > >   States to observe this month with
> > > appropriate programs and activities.�
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> > > Although the verbiage of this proclamation
> > > does establish a National American Indian
> Heritage
> > Month, it appears to only do
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> > > Seeya round town, Moscow.
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> > > Tom Hansen
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> > > Moscow, Idaho
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> > > "If not us, who?
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> > > If not now, when?"
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> > > - Unknown
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