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Native American Wireless ISP Launched
babynerd writes "On Tuesday June 1st the Coeur dAlene tribe unveiled the Turbocharged Broadband Geek Project. The scheme, organized by project head Valerie Fast Horse and funded by a $2.8 million dollar grant from the USDA Rural Utilities Service and a 15% in kind match from the tribe itself, will help build a community technology center (CTC) with 40 computers, and a wireless broadband ISP that will provide high-speed wireless access to anyone living on and near the reservation at a price comparable to that of any other DSL or Cable Internet providers - there's currently no broadband Internet access of any kind available."
Posted Anonymously, because I don't want my tribe to know...
The monetary grants handed out to native Americans does nothing but promote laziness. I've been on reservations before, and seen what goes on. I've known people on the reservations, and seen the attitudes.
Why in the world do we spend tax dollars to let native Americans surf porn and do email? If the idea was to give them a better quality of life, maybe we should offer them education instead.
Oh, wait! We do! If you're a native American, you're virtually guaranteed a scholarship to go to college. Chances are that you won't pay a single dime out of your pocket to go - IF YOU WANT TO. Those who go rarely stay on the reservation, they go make their way in the world. Those on the reservation are the ones who won't even bother to take a FREE EDUCATION to improve their lives.
How, exactly, is this connectivity to the Internet going to help them?
At least in Connecticut, the state pays for the roads, and the neighboring towns cover the schools and the extra police to keep their out-of-control gangster children from killing people (they actually beat someone nearly to death outside a school, and assaulted a police officer on the grounds of a school). The millions that they roll in each day pretty much go to the weekly pair of hundred-dollar Nikes for the aforementioned kids, and of course the large number of congresspersons that it takes to keep such an operation tax free.
"Because Science" is one step from "Because old book". Try "Because of my experiment testing my falsifiable assertion".
In order for me to continue, I need payment in the form one two beaded necklaces and a beaver pelt. Thank you...
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Are Dahmer's victims still dead? Yes. Are the victim's families still alive and grieving? Yes. Dahmer's family should continue to pay then - right? Perhaps some sort of check to each victim each month.
Do you still personally grieve your ancestors in other than a ceremonial way? No.
Are you benefiting from land "taken" from your people? Yes AND you have sovereign land with which to do with as you wish outside of the laws of the country that pays your bills so you don't have to work. If you really believe that you are receiving your benefits for use of land, you're sadly mistaken. "We" (those besides Native Americans, i.e. ANYONE that comes to this country no matter how oppressed they were in their country of origin) are still paying for the white man's guilt.
Look, I understand your bitterness, and I am by no means trivializing the attrocities commited against your people. I am not implying you are unjustified, just focusing your anger at the wrong generation. When does it stop? Does AMERICA continue to pay benefits until we are all one race and noone has 1/8 of American Indian in them? Millions of years? The situation is flawed because there is no way you can have retribution unless everyone moves out and leaves the country to you. Then we have to pay for the damage civilization has done to your resources and so on and so on. Yet, you haven't shed a drop of blood and I have never killed ANYONE. The sons and daughters of America will continue to pay for the sins of America's forefathers until.....?
Doesn't make a whole lot of sense does it? So get a job and quit your whining you fucking victim.
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Look, you almost had me. You were almost lucid. Again, I am not debating law, which you seem to be missing. Read my fucking posts you condescending fuck. If you read my posts, you'd realize not only am I not reducing it to "Why should I pay for my grandpappy's mistake?", my family wasn't even here. It's like starting out in life with a huge amount of debt, but I digress.
My main points were (and you almost addressed one):
*Why do Native Americans receive the benefits they do and no other group does.
Here's your answer:
"Look, I agree with you. If it was about giving people money for their ancestor's sufferings then I would put African Americans and Holicaust Victims at the top of the list. BUT IT ISN'T, AND THAT'S WHY AFRICAN AMERICANS AREN'T WINNING SETTLEMENTS FOR LAND CLAIMS AND BROKEN TREATIES."
Here is where you didn't follow through:
*If there IS justification (i.e. the land claims and treaties you speak of), when will they stop receiving these benefits? See, that is my real quandry. "Indefinitly."
Now maybe my perspective is skewed because it would be easier for me to justify compensation for ancesteral pain and suffering than it is to justify STILL paying for "LAND CLAIMS AND BROKEN TREATIES". If it comes down to broken contracts, we should have had this resolved 100 years ago.
PS: Your wife is selling her self short. My ex-wife is 1/8 cherokee and had ALL of her college paid for. There, I've shown my bias as well.
ymmv