It’s the generation that committed the crimes who needed to apologize! This is a sincere symbolic gesture of good faith and this pope should not be held responsible….nor should anyone of today get ostracized for slavery hundreds of years ago. Then there’s the Holocaust…… Like the pope, people of today are paying for what happened generations ago.
Where does it stop? Granted human atrocities are a stain on our country’s history, bet we NEED to go forward, and never let these crimes happen again. We need to stop dwelling and work on making a brighter future.
This toon is misleading and in poor taste. First off, the Pope was in Canada addressing that nations horrific treatment of the First Canadian indigenous population, not the American plains nations as depicted. The Canadian government beginning in the mid 1700s created a policy of forced cultural eradication and assimilation that bordered on genocide. Second, it wasn’t guns, technology and warfare that decimated the indigenous American people it was disease. When the Spaniards first landed in the Americas, they brought diseases for which the Native Americans had little to no immunity. It’s unknown just how great the death rate was among the FAs but it was certainly horrendous. The Conquistadors had their own issues with the native diseases and environmental dangers but nothing like what happened to the locals. I could make a good case that if European diseases did not have the disastrous impact that so weakened the indigenous American nations and tribes, there could well have been a very different outcome for them.
Valiant1943 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Long over due
Durak Premium Member almost 2 years ago
This woman breaks my heart, every time I see it. My eyes fill with tears. I cannot watch it without grieving for all the destroyed lives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCs4E5h3AaI
scote1379 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
The First Nation’s of both North and South of both Borders have quite enough to be ugly about!
jvscanlan Premium Member almost 2 years ago
The Pope apologizes to First Nation people while in places in the United States it’s now illegal to even discuss race.
Zebrastripes almost 2 years ago
Paying for the sins of our fathers….
It’s the generation that committed the crimes who needed to apologize! This is a sincere symbolic gesture of good faith and this pope should not be held responsible….nor should anyone of today get ostracized for slavery hundreds of years ago. Then there’s the Holocaust…… Like the pope, people of today are paying for what happened generations ago.
Where does it stop? Granted human atrocities are a stain on our country’s history, bet we NEED to go forward, and never let these crimes happen again. We need to stop dwelling and work on making a brighter future.
MuddyUSA Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Terrible cartoon….very bad taste….sad!! It was an effort to heal!
AtomicForce91 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
From the schools that the kids chose to go to…With graveyards that do not have the body count expected by Liberal activists.
Kracklin Rosie - “Tolo Dan Nan Galad” Premium Member almost 2 years ago
This toon is misleading and in poor taste. First off, the Pope was in Canada addressing that nations horrific treatment of the First Canadian indigenous population, not the American plains nations as depicted. The Canadian government beginning in the mid 1700s created a policy of forced cultural eradication and assimilation that bordered on genocide. Second, it wasn’t guns, technology and warfare that decimated the indigenous American people it was disease. When the Spaniards first landed in the Americas, they brought diseases for which the Native Americans had little to no immunity. It’s unknown just how great the death rate was among the FAs but it was certainly horrendous. The Conquistadors had their own issues with the native diseases and environmental dangers but nothing like what happened to the locals. I could make a good case that if European diseases did not have the disastrous impact that so weakened the indigenous American nations and tribes, there could well have been a very different outcome for them.