{"id":6949,"date":"2015-07-04T13:57:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T17:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=6949"},"modified":"2015-07-04T17:37:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T21:37:39","slug":"happy-4th-of-july-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/happy-4th-of-july-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 4th of July (2015)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.someecards.com\/usercards\/viewcard\/MjAxMS0xZGMzZjY2YjQwOTY0NzA2\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 456px;\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.someecards.com\/someecards\/usercards\/1309467051593_5474543.png\" alt=\"Native American genocide\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On this 4th of July holiday in 2015 I hope that more us whites will begin to accept that we need to start giving back to the native Americans large amounts of the land that was stolen from them.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar fashion also we need to accept that the time has come (and is long and distinctively overdue) to pay financial compensation to black Americans for the many years of slavery that their families lived and died through.<\/p>\n<p>If it weren&#8217;t for theft of Indian land and the free labor of enslaved Africans we white Americans would not have a United States (or much anything at all).<\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t get all vehemently upset and unsettled when people like Obama say things like, &#8220;<em>You didn&#8217;t build that.<\/em>&#8221; If it weren&#8217;t for the free land the free labor\u00a0 we wouldn&#8217;t be in a position to build or create much of anything right now whether it be writing computer code and scripts, throwing sticks in the ground and pounding nails, or inventing new technology or decoding DNA.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d likely be stuck in survival mode just like much of the world still is today outside of the United States. Your largest (or only) concerns would be water, food, shelter, clothing and sex.<\/p>\n<p>The day is coming when whites Americans will pay, voluntarily or involuntarily.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on what our age is we might laugh at all of the above or we may just not care very much because we know that we are on our way out at some point relatively soon anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, we white Americans should think twice before making statements such as &#8220;<em>blacks should go back to Africa if they don&#8217;t like it here.<\/em>&#8221; The free labor of enslaved black Americans built this country. If anyone needs to go back to some place it is probably us white Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this 4th of July holiday in 2015 I hope that more us whites will begin to accept that we need to start giving back to the native Americans large amounts of the land that was stolen from them. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/happy-4th-of-july-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4212,4207,4206,4208],"tags":[4213,4209,4210,4211],"class_list":["post-6949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-indians","category-indigenous-americans","category-native-americans","category-reparations-for-slavery","tag-american-indians","tag-indigenous-americans","tag-native-americans","tag-reparations-for-slavery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6949"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6959,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949\/revisions\/6959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}