Friday, October 25, 2024

Biden Set to Apologize for Indian Boarding Schools

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

The least we can do is honor the treaties our leaders signed.

But tribes have had a while to learn about law and what exactly those treaties mean. We've seen major water rights adjudication and some settlements over mismanagement of trust by the tribes' steward, the the U.S. Federal government.

Hopefully, we'll see more to come.

It's also important that we know the history. Otherwise, we get racist -------- like #10.

The truth is, some were kidnapped right off the streets. Go into town, never come back.

#29 | Posted by horstngraben at 2024-10-25 08:38 PM

I don't think reparations applies when the government is already legally obligated.

#30 | Posted by horstngraben at 2024-10-25 08:40 PM

Pres Biden is not "set to apologize" he did.

Biden apologizes for forced Native American boarding school policy that caused abuse and deaths of children
www.nbcnews.com

... The president's apology comes after a bombshell Interior Department investigation.

President Joe Biden delivered an apology Friday for a United States policy that forcibly separated generations of indigenous children from their families for more than 150 years and sent them to federally backed boarding schools for forced assimilation.

"I formally apologize as president of the United States of America for what we did," Biden said in strident remarks. "It's long overdue."

The president's apology, on tribal land at the Gila River Indian Reservation, came in the wake of a years-long investigation commissioned by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a member of the Pueblo of Laguna and the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary. Haaland's grandparents were separated from their families because of the policy.

"We know that the federal government failed," Haaland said in emotional remarks before Biden was introduced.

"It failed to violate our languages, our traditions, our life ways. It failed to destroy us because we persevered," she added. ...



#31 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-25 08:46 PM

Pres Biden is not "set to apologize" he did.

Check the timestamp, ffs.

#32 | Posted by horstngraben at 2024-10-25 08:48 PM

In other words, no ---- Sherlock.

#33 | Posted by horstngraben at 2024-10-25 08:49 PM

#31 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-25 08:46 PM | Reply | Flag: Message received 5 X 5

Are you really this dense?
#7 | Posted by LampLighter | Flag: How to not look like a complete moron while posting on the Retort.
Or are you being just willingly ignorant?

At least my HTML posts don't butcher the available posting space the way your posts do.

I'm constantly asked if I'm the one supposedly seeking attention.

Is that what you're doing?

If you don't know how to do basic HTML, please reach out.

If you don't know basic HTML and cannot figure this out, and do not want to become informed, well, then, congratulations

Inquiring minds want to know.

#34 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-25 08:49 PM

@#32 ... Check the timestamp ...

I did, and that is why I posted the update.

#35 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-25 09:10 PM

Can't Biden ever give a speech over past tense non political issues involving our history that today represents unchangeable non solvable water over the damn national issues without foaming at the mouth?

There is no legitmate resolution to all involved yet Democrats adore keeping the outrage alive.

#36 | Posted by Robson at 2024-10-26 12:04 AM

Does Biden know he apologized?

#37 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-10-26 06:21 AM

#37
If you'd watched and listened, you'd know. But you still wouldn't have learned anything. Weird, that, eh?

#38 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-10-26 07:37 AM

Yes. He really should have done something about that. Back in the 1800s.

#39 | Posted by madbomber at 2024-10-26 09:38 AM

Does Biden know he apologized?

#37 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-10-26 06:21 AM | Reply | Flag

The jury is still out on that one.

#40 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-10-26 09:52 AM

Back in the 1800s.

Most federally funded boarding schools closed in 1969.

There are a plenty of indians alive today for Biden to apologize to.

Y'all don't know your history. Not even the history of your own country.

But that's no excuse for being racist Trump dummies.

#41 | Posted by horstngraben at 2024-10-26 10:44 AM

Yes. He really should have done something about that. Back in the 1800s.

#39 | POSTED BY MADBOMBER

Well if we are time traveling I looked forward.

Apparently good apologies take time.

And I saw that there Republicans are all set to apologize to America for the damage to democracy Trumpy has done.

In the year 2100.

#42 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-10-26 12:53 PM

"There are a plenty of indians alive today for Biden to apologize to."

Hmm. Should I apologize too?

#43 | Posted by madbomber at 2024-10-26 02:49 PM

Should I apologize too?

I don't know. Only you can answer that.

#44 | Posted by horstngraben at 2024-10-26 02:52 PM

Something people don't realize is that the POTUS has a special relationship with tribes as the representative of the stewards of the tribes, the Federal government.

Whatever your personal relationship with indians is your deal.

#45 | Posted by horstngraben at 2024-10-26 02:56 PM

- Should I apologize too?

Only for that Mohawk haircut.

Those went out of style some time ago.

Also, Obligatory:

Cherokee People - Paul Revere And The Raiders

www.youtube.com

#46 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-26 03:03 PM

Hmm. Should I apologize too?

#43 | Posted by madbomber at 2024-10-26 02:49 PM | Reply | Flag:

Big Chief Dumbass.

#47 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-10-26 03:14 PM

The United States has fiat currency these days...just print more!

"...for all debts, public and private"

#48 | Posted by john47 at 2024-10-26 03:23 PM

My sister in law is a native American from the west ID and she looks like it with long black now graying hair and essentially mostly thinks like me.

Biden needed to ditch his divisive KKK ideology years ago as it was always phony and never good for Americans and unity. Democrats (top dogs who manipulate their underlings) tell us they are righteous when the truth is they are master manipulators and schemers and master baiters too who just like Biden never had a righteous bone in his perverted body. But then they have power that they use to coverup truth.

#49 | Posted by Robson at 2024-10-26 03:45 PM

What does she think about reparations to tribes for their abuse and stolen land?

Or don't you know....

#50 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-26 03:48 PM

Cherokee Relocation Map

americanindian.si.edu

The Trail of Tears and the Forced Relocation of the Cherokee Nation (Teaching with Historic Places)

www.nps.gov

#51 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-26 03:51 PM

"#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

Expect the unexpected. Biden has been perpetually underestimated by people, only to prove them wrong, after biden his time.

#52 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-10-26 04:35 PM

My sister in law is a native American

Well thank ---- you understand everything.

#53 | Posted by horstngraben at 2024-10-26 04:44 PM

"My sister in law is a native American..." -

#49 | Posted by Robson | Flag: A proud Russian bot since 2006 (perhaps)

And, let's guess: You have many Negro friends, too.

Right?

#54 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-26 05:20 PM

#50 Corky - Sorry I haven't a clue what she thinks about reparations and I've known her and her brothers in Idaho for decades. She is Cherokee and her grandmother was involved in that trail of tears move and on a reservation Black Foot? in eastern ID or Oklahoma. Im speaking out of my axx on this as my wife knows more than I and grew up with their family. This stuff is something only politicians looking for political advantage or divide worry about. I have black friends and like most Americans have never talked about either reparations or slavery. Most friends represent what MLK wanted (and not BLM or DEI). We don't even see race. My belief is only the devious slippery manipulating politicians like Kamala and Biden spend their pathetic lives foisting this hateful stuff on us hoping to create political edge or a race war. Such beliefs and people are worse than this nations worst enemy.

#55 | Posted by Robson at 2024-10-26 05:41 PM

My sister in law is a native American

Robson swells with pride whenever the orange diaper sniper refers to gut-eaters as "Pocahontas."

#56 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-10-26 05:52 PM

- Im speaking out of my axx on this

As per usual.

- This stuff is something only politicians looking for political advantage or divide worry about.

People with a brain and a concience seek solutions to, "This stuff", helps solve the problems, not ignore them as not worth the worry.

They don't rationalize evil as unimportant the way co-conspirator Traitor Trumpers do.

#57 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-26 06:03 PM

Cher - Half Breed

www.youtube.com

#58 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-26 11:36 PM

Relative is Native American and "looks looks like it."

Stereotype much?

You'd really might get a head turn with those blond-haired, blue-eyed Oklahoma Choctaws and Cherokees.

#59 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-10-27 07:39 AM

But the always angry always racist Biden should apologize. My sister in law told me it was Democrats in DC that put the native American kids in these schools.

#60 | Posted by Robson at 2024-10-27 02:10 PM

Keep racist minded and agended Democrats out of DC and every American of all demographics will be better for it.

#61 | Posted by Robson at 2024-10-27 02:12 PM

Robson... you should really consider a new handle here.

Something like, "Oblivious" would be apropos.

#62 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-27 02:33 PM

#62 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-27 02:33 PM | Reply | Flag: Extremely Newsworthy

#63 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-27 02:34 PM

"But the always angry always racist Biden should apologize."

#60 | Posted by Robson | Flag: A proud Russian bot since 2006 (perhaps)

===> 100% oops

MAGAts post and re-post 100% BS because they believe that everyone is as gullible and stupid as they are.
You're welcome.

#64 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-27 02:39 PM

My sister in law told me it was Democrats in DC that put the native American kids in these schools.

There might be some truth to this. Kill the indian to save the man.

Conservatives wanted to starve them out.

#65 | Posted by horstngraben at 2024-10-27 03:26 PM

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