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FWST: LaDainian Tomlinson challenges TCU to examine its past, ties to racial injustice
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<blockquote data-quote="flyfishingfrog" data-source="post: 2975349" data-attributes="member: 70903"><p>so I don't agree with your top statement really - as Pharm stated later, people who are descendants like my wife tend to have a stronger perspective but also a stronger bias naturally. </p><p></p><p>And really to be honest - despite all my posting, I don't think it matters that we decide if or which is worse. They are both tragic events.</p><p></p><p>But the question is more in your second statement - should we not be spending our efforts on trying to stop these type of events from occurring again today and in the future instead of focusing all our efforts on debating the past?</p><p></p><p>The debate on the past is nothing more than a different attempt at a politically correct blame game or to find an acceptable excuse to support a groups current hardships and failures instead of focusing on opportunities for success.</p><p></p><p>My wife's family saw it for years - entire families that sat around waiting for their monthly check to survive in the Nation always had an excuse of why they were not working to improve their situation of dependence. When casinos came that just paid out to the members of the tribe, the checks got bigger so the struggle was less - but the result was not different.</p><p></p><p>However when you look at the communities that used the Casino to create actual jobs for their citizens instead of just checks or used the profits to fund infrastructure programs and to train tribal members with the skills needed to run the Nations and to work outside the Rez - the financial and quality of life growth in those tribes is 5x what it is in the ones where the check just got bigger.</p><p></p><p>So if you focus all your attention on trying to blame someone else for your lot in life and waiting on that group to pay you for your suffering - you will never move above the situation you were born into.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flyfishingfrog, post: 2975349, member: 70903"] so I don't agree with your top statement really - as Pharm stated later, people who are descendants like my wife tend to have a stronger perspective but also a stronger bias naturally. And really to be honest - despite all my posting, I don't think it matters that we decide if or which is worse. They are both tragic events. But the question is more in your second statement - should we not be spending our efforts on trying to stop these type of events from occurring again today and in the future instead of focusing all our efforts on debating the past? The debate on the past is nothing more than a different attempt at a politically correct blame game or to find an acceptable excuse to support a groups current hardships and failures instead of focusing on opportunities for success. My wife's family saw it for years - entire families that sat around waiting for their monthly check to survive in the Nation always had an excuse of why they were not working to improve their situation of dependence. When casinos came that just paid out to the members of the tribe, the checks got bigger so the struggle was less - but the result was not different. However when you look at the communities that used the Casino to create actual jobs for their citizens instead of just checks or used the profits to fund infrastructure programs and to train tribal members with the skills needed to run the Nations and to work outside the Rez - the financial and quality of life growth in those tribes is 5x what it is in the ones where the check just got bigger. So if you focus all your attention on trying to blame someone else for your lot in life and waiting on that group to pay you for your suffering - you will never move above the situation you were born into. [/QUOTE]
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