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abqtommy

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3. Semanticists arise! I'm a native american because I was born within
Mon Oct 14, 2019, 03:45 PM
Oct 2019

the borders of the United States. However, I am not related by blood to any indigenous person in the United States. I do share relationships of the heart with most of my fellow citizens, even the deluded and deplorable and I will be thinking of that today. note: I base this op on comments I read about during the debate years ago on the difference between the terms Native and Indigenous. These things are important to some people. Then there's the claim that at some point in history even the Indigenous peoples were immigrants, but then wasn't everybody?

I choose to ignore all the controversy and use my energy to treat most peoples with respect. I leave the colonizing invaders and slave masters out though. There's a limit to everything.

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