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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you make a good point. “Gut” feelings are affected by bias. And white people’s discomfort around brown people should not be handled by removing the brown people from the scene. Jeez.

5:47, I’m going to look into the boarding schools you mention. But I’m curious why you were testy with the OP and didn’t engage her point. She doesn’t seem like the enemy here....[/quote]

Probably because he’s a troll.[/quote]

I’m not a troll.  There are plenty of us still around, it gets old and tiring having to explain.  I’m not going to explain to you why it’s offensive, and I don’t need you to explain to me why I shouldn’t be offended.  I don’t think the OP is a racist or horrible person.  But people in 2018 still need to be hand held about the native population of this country.  Educate yourself.  Would you speak like that to other minority populations?  Probably not.

Indian Boarding Schools (it’s a term of art, so google that exact phrase) have a horrible history.  It was the white man’s way to take children, especially from (but not exclusively from) reservations at a very young age, send them to religious boarding schools where their hair was cut, they were forced to dress in European style clothes, renamed, taught English, taught Christianity, forbidden to speak their native tongue, separated from their families and tribal culture, beaten, abused, and barely educated at all.  Basically, take the “Indian” out of them and force them to be white, so that when they graduated and returned to their families they would have nothing in common.  These children were forced to attend.  Go to YouTube and watch videos under Indian Boarding Schools.  Many baby boomers wee victims to this structure, they learned to deal with discipline with physical violence and other abuse, they weren’t raised in regular homes with their families.  So when they went back, grew up, got married, had a family, they had no reference to how to raised kids other than what happened to them at these schools.  And here starts the pattern of domestic violence in native populations, and the beat goes on......[/quote]

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