Obama promises Native Americans place on agenda »
Posted By Diane_Steward 2 weeks, 4 days ago in Political NewsPresident Obama pledged Thursday to redeem broken promises made to American Indians, saying he's empathetic because of his own history as an outsider.
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TOD3962 weeks, 3 days ago
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FTA: "I know what it means to feel ignored and forgotten, and what it means to struggle," he said.
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BS, he got a very good education and sleeps at 1600 Pennsylvania. He is not an "outsider". Never was, hopefully, one day he will be...-
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Dionys2 weeks, 3 days ago
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"BS, he got a very good education and sleeps at 1600 Pennsylvania. "
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Now.
Do you know anything about his life prior to that? His life growing up? You might want to read up on that so you don't come across as such an ignorant fool.
That said he probably didn't suffer nearly as much as your average Native American does in this society. They've been screwed by the government for hundreds of years, had treaties broken over and over again, had their lands that they were forced on to raped and pillaged after it was discovered they were rich with minerals (though poor in everything else)... the list goes on and on and on. It's about damned time Native Americans had a high place on the US agenda.
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