What are the positives to being biracial?

Imagine being Native American (or African-American, or Mexican-American, or Jewish American) and reading this about yourself.

It looks like you’re trying to singlehandedly bring back the myth of the Wild savages conquered by the brave and noble pioneers.

Right out of a circa 1920 John Ford movie.

BillRM wrote:

So how about allowing the native cultures to go back into large scale raiding for such things as women and horses and now days four by four vehicles?

This is one of the most racist things ever written on Able2know. Imagine being Native American (or African-American, or Mexican-American, or Jewish American) and reading this about yourself. This exact racist fantasy has been applied to African Americans and Hispanic Americans too.

Racism against Indegenous people whould be taken as seriously as racism against any other group.

Hightor, go back an read the context.BillRM (with Izzy's support), was arguing that Native Americans (paticularly the Apache) deserved to be pushed off their land and killed because they were brutal and savage.

Then BillRM imagined modern Native Americans "raiding... for women"

Come on! I get that you guys want to circle the wagons and support your ideological side.

If this isn't racist, then what is?

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cynthia-ann-parker-is-kidnapped

During a raid, Comanche, Kiowa and Caddo Native Americans in Texas kidnap Cynthia Ann Parker (who was around 9 or 10 years old) and kill her family. Adopted into the Comanche tribe, she lived a happy life until Texas Rangers recaptured her and forced her to return to live again among Anglo-Americans.

Silas and Lucy Parker moved their young family from Illinois to Texas in 1832. To protect themselves, they erected a solidly constructed civilian stockade about 40 miles east of present-day Waco that came to be called Parker’s Fort. The tall wooden stockade was reportedly capable of holding off “a large enemy force” if properly defended. However, when no Native American attacks materialized for many months, the Parker family and the relatives who joined them in the fort became careless. Frequently they left the bulletproof gates to the fort wide open for long periods.

On May 19, 1836, several hundred Comanche, Kiowa, and Caddo Native Americans staged a surprise attack. During the ensuing battle, the Native Americans killed five of the Parkers. In the chaos, the Native Americans abducted nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker and four other white women and children. The Comanche and Caddo bands later divided women and children between them. The Comanche took Parker, and she lived with them for the next 25 years.

Like many Plains Indian tribes, the Comanche had long engaged in the practice of kidnapping their enemy’s women and children. Sometimes these captives were treated like slaves who provided useful work and could be traded for valuable goods. Often, though, captives eventually became full-fledged members of the tribe, particularly if they were kidnapped as young children. Such was the case with Parker.

Let’s see...
Tell me BillW -
Was Sacawagea a brave and heroic woman who accompanied and helped the famous explorers, Lewis and Clark?

Or,

Was she a Shoshone child of fourteen bought as a slave by trappers who raped her and traded her to the Lewis and Clark expedition to serve as a translator?

There you go Hightor.

Now do you want to distance yourself from BillRM's ugly racist tirade?

No reason, huh? Do you think the fact that HE OWNED HER might throw a little imbalance into those “emotions on both sides”?

Seriously?

Imagine being Native American (or African-American, or Mexican-American, or Jewish American) and reading this about yourself.

Hightor, go back an read the context.