Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "TheDC Shorts"
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LeJon Brames
NO!!!! He was a man that was a product of his times. Our ancestors did terrible things because of the realities of life as they had to live it. Not just Columbus but YOUR ancestors as well. It's not written down in history books because your ancestors, like mine, didn't do anything extraordinary, never changed the course of history in great leaps like Columbus did. However, if we were to get into some kind of time machine to examine what our ancestors have done or believed, we'd be amazed to find out just how horrible they were at times.
This young man hasn't even began to live his life, yet he sits in judgement over those that he doesn't fully understand, that none of us will fully understand. What he's doing is exactly what some of the worst of moralists have done. He's dismissing people as evil when he has no right to do that. Also, he's taken the first step in dismissing that individual, Columbus as an example, and wanting to erase that person from history. That is the intermediary step to the one where we erase those, who are living today, that we feel might share similar views and lives to the one we've vilified in history. That's how the horrors start. It is the attempt to eradicate the evil around us when the evil that we should be eradicating is the evil that lies within us. Recognise that and you recognise the lessons of history.
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CHIEF TAHCHAWWICKAH
I don't even know what you're right about. I know that it was wrong to force a group of people onto a reservation. I'll concede that. However, I know that they don't have to stay there. I know that for a fact.
So, now that this has been settled, why would a continuous harangue of white folk, well over 100 years ago, make things better today? It would no different than me, yelling at Germans, because the Nazi soldiers near starved my mother to death. THE WAR IS OVER!!!! It serves nothing to hate them over it. In fact, I've worked with guys who were in the SS. We both acknowledged what happened and how horrible it was and it's OVER NOW.
Time to get over the bitterness, anger and resentment. It helps no one. Not the Comanche, in your case, or my relatives on my mother's side, in my case. It just prolongs the angst. Unless this is what you want...I guess go for it but don't expect people to take it because they won't.
But, I'm sure that I'm right about you. You have NO idea what I'm talking about. You're just angry and you don't want to let go of it. Why a person would want to live like that is beyond me.
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