Paintrain's all encompassing 'discuss all things offseason' thread (Version 2.0)

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by scowan

I'm about to open a can of worms I know, but what native americans of TODAY have endured hardships. If they have and are its because of their own choosing. This is like the Black community continuing to blame their struggles on whites when we are 40+ years from the civil rights movement. By the way, I see a black man in the oval office. At what point do you "join" America and take advantage of the freedom to choose you own future and outcome based on your abilty and quit blaming others for your struggles. Its not a perfect world I'll give you that, but there is more opportunity to rise above your condition in this country verses any other I know, but it seems like many want to continue to put the blame on others for their "condition" instead of rising above it through hard work and effort. Ok enough soapbox for me.

Our Congress just wants to continue to find "victims" they can champion. If its not the Redskins it would be another "victim" group. Instead of bringing people together, they just want to make us all hate each other for votes. Its all very sad.

I don't want to turn this into a social/history discussion. But Native Americans are one of many groups that have been disadvantaged over several generations and that's something that doesn't turn around overnight.

Here's a non minority comparison. Look at the southern US states that were heavily affected by the Civil War. Some of the poorest states in the country are in the South, which was heavily affected by the loss of people and economic resources during the war. Some of them bounced back, but most have not, yet the Civil War ended almost 150 years ago. Sure there has been other things affecting these states, but 5 years of warfare, loss of life, and breakdown of economic structure has a long term effect.