[wardaddy]

Do you prostrate yourself at the altar of guilt over the ill treatment of the Amerindians by your kinfolks as well Mr Minnesota?


Actually, I like Minnesotans but in your case I'll make an exception.

[jlogajan]

Do you prostrate yourself at the altar of guilt over the ill treatment of the Amerindians by your kinfolks as well Mr Minnesota?

My gramps was a peasant man who arrived here at the turn of the 20th century -- long after the Indian wars.

And no, there is nothing proud about the treatment of Minnesotan government toward the Indians of old. However, unlike some southerners trying to play the victim (kinda like the Japanese now only remember being victims of the A-bomb) any attempt by fellow Minnesotans to paper over such past evils would get condemnation from me.

There was nothing noble about slaughtering the Indians just as there is nothing noble about being slave holders.