Biden Set to Apologize for Indian Boarding Schools

Friday, October 25, 2024

President Joe Biden plans to formally apologize Friday for the U.S. government's role in running hundreds of Indian boarding schools for a 150-year period that stripped Native American children of their language and culture in a systematic effort to force them to assimilate into White society, according to administration officials.

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"Kill the Indian, save the man."

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-10-24 02:28 PM

Biden Set to Apologize for Indian Boarding Schools

Wow! Looks like Joe thinks Kamala might get elected and he's wary of that "license to kill" SCOTUS just gave presidents.

#2 | Posted by censored at 2024-10-24 06:47 PM

Screw your apologies. set it right. Reparations!

#3 | Posted by fresno500 at 2024-10-24 11:43 PM

Screw your apologies. set it right. Reparations!
#3 | Posted by fresno500

Almost all of the former students are dead. But playing along, reparations for sending them to school, not for taking the continent from them? Or should "we" pay reparations for that as well. Wonder what that would entail? Make Blacks, Mexicans, Chinese pay reparations, that would be fun to see.

#4 | Posted by censored at 2024-10-25 07:25 AM

Screw your apologies. set it right. Reparations!

#3 | Posted by fresno500 at 2024-10-24 11:43 PM | Reply

Who do we take the money from to pay these reparations, and who exactly are the recipients?

#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-10-25 08:25 AM

About all that can be done now is recognition through an apology. Recommend "In the White Man's Image," part of the PBS "American Experience" series, a terrific intro to the "education" process to which the kids were subjected, its roots, etc ... .at youtu.be

#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-10-25 11:12 AM

Biden is apologizing for the government taking care of kids that had been abandoned or had abusive parents.

#7 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-10-25 02:52 PM

Visitor should apologize for lowering the median IQ in American by at least a couple of points.

#8 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-25 02:54 PM

Biden is apologizing for the government taking care of kids that had been abandoned or had abusive parents.

#7 | Posted by visitor_

Russian Visitor is pro-kidnapping

#9 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-10-25 03:00 PM

The kids were kidnapped? Really? They took kids from healthy homes with non-abusive parents that were taking good care? Why would they do that?

#10 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-10-25 03:06 PM

Reparations are Marxist and un-American! Except when they aren't.

The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 granted reparations to Japanese Americans who had been interned by the U.S. government during World War II. The Act's purpose was to discourage the occurrence of similar injustices and violations of civil liberties in the future. The majority of Democrats in Congress supported the legislation. The majority of Republicans voted against it. The Act was signed into law by 'radical left-wing extremist', President Ronald Reagan. Each surviving internee received $20,000 in compensation (approximately $45,000 in today's money). The Act stated that government actions had been based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership" as opposed to legitimate security reasons. A total of 82,219 individuals received these reparation payments.

#11 | Posted by anton at 2024-10-25 03:13 PM

Why would they do that?

#10 | Posted by visitor_

It's in the article stupid - to de-indian their culture and make them act like white people

#12 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-10-25 03:13 PM

Ask Visitor about the Trail of Tears.

He won't know -------- about that, either.

#13 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-25 03:20 PM

#13

Visiturd's ignorance makes us all very sad:

www.youtube.com

#14 | Posted by anton at 2024-10-25 03:25 PM

It's cute how you are willing to accept the version of history written by leftist activists with no question.

#15 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-10-25 03:25 PM

It feels like it's insulting to wait this long to give this apology

#16 | Posted by eberly at 2024-10-25 03:43 PM

Because what we really need during a neck and neck presidential race is an apology tour from the sitting president.

#17 | Posted by Tor at 2024-10-25 03:50 PM

It's cute how you are willing to accept the version of history written by leftist activists with no question.

#15 | Posted by visitor_

It's cute you support a candidate who hates America-you know, the garbage can country.

#18 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-25 03:54 PM

I told you guys, Biden isn't planning to leave office.

#19 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-10-25 04:47 PM

You think Biden would do what Trump tried and failed at?
I'll admit - if Harris doesn't win that's not an unappealing thought, but you are talking about a man that always put America and the Constitution first, always deferring to precedent. Otherwise we'd have more SCOTUS judges today to dilute the dumbfuq Sharia Supremes.

#20 | Posted by YAV at 2024-10-25 04:51 PM

It's cute how you are willing to accept the version of history written by leftist activists with no question.

#15 | Posted by visitor

Please, enlighten us with the true history of the Native Americans over the last 250 or so years. I'd love to hear your version.

#21 | Posted by El_Buscador at 2024-10-25 05:11 PM

#10 Visitor They did that because in their racist minds they considered Native Americans savages. They wanted to make them "civilized." FYI, White people (not all) think that anyone not white are inferior and little above animals, hence the word savage. Europeans couldn't understand that Native Anericans didn't believe in land ownership or believed in gods and nature rather than White people's Christian God. While at the same time they were killing the Native Americans, stealing their land, breaking every treaty they signed, and putting them on reservations and stealing their children. A great book to read is "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown.

#22 | Posted by Ronnie68 at 2024-10-25 05:11 PM

The irony. It was Lakota at Wounded Knee. Lakota are Souix. The Souix didn't name themselves Souix.

I wonder how they got that name? It didn't come from White People.

#23 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-10-25 05:28 PM

Background Info: The name "sioux" is short for Nadowessioux, meaning "little snakes", which was a spiteful nickname given to them by the Ojibwe, their longtime foe. The fur traders abbreviated this name to Sioux and is now commonly used.
https://www.d.umn.edu studproj
sioux

#24 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-10-25 05:31 PM

"You think Biden would do what Trump tried and failed at?"

Trump didn't really try. It wasn't even a half-assed attempt, at best. If Biden invokes martial law, it's a whole different ball game. Everyone is distracted by Kamala and Donald and no one will be expecting it.

#25 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-10-25 05:35 PM

It's cute how you are willing to accept the version of history written by leftist activists with no question.

#15 | Posted by visitor_

Anyone who's not in the klan is a leftist activist.
You prefer the klan.

#26 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-10-25 05:45 PM

I told you guys, Biden isn't planning to leave office.

#19 | Posted by sentinel

And you will be proven wrong just like the people who said trump wouldnt leave office peacefully were proven correct.

#27 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-10-25 05:46 PM

No reparations? = another festering wound.

#28 | Posted by fresno500 at 2024-10-25 07:19 PM

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