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4.06.2006
Andrew Jackson's Fifth Annual Message :: Tracking Westward Expansion; the Trail of Tears: "It is to be hoped that those portions of two of the Southern tribes, which in that event will present the only remaining difficulties, will realize the necessity of emigration, and will speedily resort to it. My original convictions upon this subject have been confirmed by the course of events for several years, and experience is every day adding to their strength. That those tribes can not exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizens is certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition. Established in the midst of another and a superior race, and without appreciating the causes of their inferiority or seeking to control them, they must necessarily yield to the force of circumstances and ere long disappear." Emphasis mine. Its always the same presumption, that when a culture fails to subscribe to "our way of life" they are deemed inferior for not choosing to live the way we do and can thus be dismissed and conquered. Its inevitable that the requirements that are given are impossible to meet. I suspect the immigration bills coming out of our government will be much like the treaties made with the indigenous peoples. It will be a way to control them, make rules for them to comply with, raise the bar ever higher and declare defeat for them when they fail. Thus we will be "empowered" by our own superiority to take stronger matters. | |
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