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Originally Posted by Chris Bell
The more I think about this cmac quote the more I relize just how revealing it is. Cmac is holding up as an example a philosophy that completely failed those that espoused it. The Sioux were in a fight for their lives, for their way of life and they got their asses handed to them. Now 150 or so years later CMAC is espousing this philosophy as one that we should admire and follow. One could only conclude two things. One, CMAC wants the same result for us that the Sioux experienced. Or, two CMAC is going mad...repeating the same thing over and over but expecting different results. Either way turing the other cheek when your in a fight for life is never a good idea.
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The Sioux did fight back. Ever hear of Crazy Horse?
Black Elk seems like a wise man to me. He knew that to become the enemy was to lose in an entirely different way.
Lets be honest, the Sioux were never going to be able to resist the white settlers indefinitely. Their fate and the fate of other natives and their traditional ways was plain for everyone to see. We called it 'manifest destiny.'