Posted on 12/16/2010 6:42:50 PM PST by jazusamo
President Obama announced Thursday that the U.S. would reverse the position of the Bush administration and become the last nation to drop its opposition to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Mr. Obama made the announcement to enthusiastic applause at the second White House Tribal Nations Conference, a gathering attended by representatives of the nation's 565 recognized American Indian tribes.
"The aspirations it affirms - including respect for the institutions and rich cultures of native peoples - are ones we must always seek to fulfill," Mr. Obama said at the conference, held at the Interior Department. "But I want to be clear: What matters far more than words - what matters far more than any resolution or declaration - are actions to match those words. And that's what this conference is about."
The nonbinding declaration recognizes the rights of indigenous peoples to self-determination, as well as their institutions, cultures and traditions, and prohibits discrimination against them. When the document was introduced in 2007, 143 countries voted to approve it, 11 abstained, and four - the U.S., Canada, New Zealand and Australia - voted to oppose it.
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John R. Bolton, a U.N. ambassador under President George W. Bush, called the announcement "exactly the kind of mushy, feel-good multilateralist gesture one would expect from President Obama."
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Mr. Deer, who has been involved in the drafting and promotion of the declaration since 1987, said the Obama administration's decision to sign the document makes the declaration a "consensus document of the U.N.," lending it greater heft in international discussions and forums.
He dismissed the warnings of critics who say the document could be used to argue for massive land transfers back to North America's Indian tribes, but agreed that the declaration offers support for reparations.
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I have a smidgen of Cherokee and Blackfoot blood in my veins.
I want my Obama Money!!!
I am part of a new found tribe:
The Indignant, Ignorant, Indigenous, Imbecilic, Indigent Peoples of Ick.
I’m fine.
Did you mean Homo Thespians?
The next president should withdrawal from this UN nonsense.
Vote buying, pure and simple.
He’s looking for company.
>The time is just about here when Americans are going to have a “come to Jesus meeting” with these commie bass turds like Barry and the child rapists over at the U.N.
I’d rather it was a “go to Jesus” meeting.
{i.e. ‘meet your maker.’}
>Where on the planet are whites considered to be “indigenous” and worthy of protection from invading cultures?
Slave plantations*, obviously.
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*Read so as to maximize your anger: holding the whip, or the one being whipped.
Insanity.
Yeth! Them too. Y’all took my planet from my people. Pass the Brontosaurus burger.
Stumps and fence posts have more character, intelligence and common sense than Mr. Dunham.
LOL
The only indegenious people EVER live in the rift valley in Africa.
Neanderthal Reparations! NOW!
So easy even a _________ can do it....
“The only indegenious people EVER live in the rift valley in Africa.”
Exactly and we have been badmouthed for having a better “Tool Box” and building this nation, Here I thought everyone was equal!but that is anyone but white it seems as we pay they do not!
Humph, my people welcomed John Smith in 1607. Do I get $3?
[ “The only indegenious people EVER live in the rift valley in Africa.”
Exactly and we have been badmouthed for having a better “Tool Box” and building this nation, Here I thought everyone was equal!but that is anyone but white it seems as we pay they do not! ]
Recent DNA analysis suggest that european and people of east asian descent have some neaderthal genes in them. So can we claim we are a minority because the people of “pure human” descent are keepin’ us down???
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