Red Fox
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Isn't that for other people to decide? I mean, in this scenario, isn't it at least a bit horrible for non-native people to remind native people about the "heavy personal burden" that their non-forgiveness supposedly confers upon them? I'm not a Native American, but I have to believe that a Native American would be fully justified in saying "You're asking me to forgive you after you've taken everything from me; why am I the one with the heavy personal burden to bear on top of having nothing because of you, instead of you having the heavy personal burden for having taken everything from me, not giving anything back, and then patronizing me with talk about how much better forgiveness is than actually regaining what is rightfully mine that your ancestors stole to make this country that you rule?"
(I believe that because that's exactly what a Palestinian Christian friend of mine once said about the potential of peace with Israel. From memory, since it's stayed with me for years: "Give me my land back and then we can talk. There cannot be any talk of human rights on the terms of the one who has taken all my human rights away. How can I forgive you if I can't even meet with you because you took my land and barred me from returning to it, because you say it's yours now?" All good questions, I think.)
I'm not just being asked to forgive, but I'm also asked, and sometimes told, to forget.
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