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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish the Native Americans had been as vocal and also had the unrelenting support that a few of you consistently espouse for Israel and Palestine.  Today, in 2014, the poorest county in America with no electricity, is in South Dakota called Pine Ridge.

I feel deeply for and saddened for the Palestineans in their plight for freedom, and I also understand the fear of security for Israel.  This is a very, very complex situation with no easy answers.  Death and destruction.

But I will tell you that I feel some contempt when I hear both sides self-servingly spout on about the injustices but right under your noses you deliver not even lip service to right the wrong to Native Americans right here in 2014.  Right here in America.  When I start seeing that, maybe I will have more empathy with the hundreds of post here.

When I see your outrage and your anger for the number of Native American children and young adults who die of despair and physically in the bosom of the wealthiest nation on earth, then I will feel empathy in your words.

This forum has been a bully pulpit for a handful of posters.  Good!  That's the purpose of free speech and to call attention to injustices.  I have done the same.

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I have some sympathy for Indians.  But they can buy land here.  They can vote.  They can travel out of the country at will and come back.  They can go fishing off the coast.  They can apply to colleges anywhere in the country.  They can buy a house in Crown Heights.  These are things a Gazan cannot do.[/quote]I will give my attentions and carry the fight to what's right here.  I feel as passionately about this as you do for events in another land.

Fair enough.  I have more than just 'some sympathy.'  I'm sure you feel the same about your cause.  All the things Native Americans can do, as you say, takes money.  From the perspective of the most impoverished county in the country, these freedoms don't come easily.

Nothing and nobody will ever convince me that this wrong should not be righted.[/quote]

Did I say that?  No.

You are the one attempting to force us to choose between two oppressed groups.  I don't have to.  If you ask me who has it worse, I will say Gazans for sure.  Last time I looked, mid-2013, the unemployment rate for Native Americans was a bit above 11%.  Care to guess the unemployment rate in Gaza?  41%.  The unemployment rate for the US at the peak of the great depression?  21%.  
[/quote]In deference to Jeff, I won't continue this discussion.  Your facts and figures are meaningless if you don't understand the history and the present situation.   Fight the fight for your cause, and I will do the same.  Period.

I'm done.
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