And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
The boundary between Scottsdale, Arizona and the Salt River Indian Reservation
Visit Google Earth and get the WHOLE picture. If you pan to the left you are on the golf course; the casino; the aquarium; the baseball spring training complex; a host of rent and (Indian) tax paying conference and retail development; and a ton of very productive irrigated farm land...
2 casinos and spring training camp for Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks plus a cement factory. Tribe is doing good for less than 10000 people.
There is a similar photo that I think is far more illustrative of the concept of self inflicted disparity of the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
IQ difference explains the photo: mean IQ on right is 100 while on the left it is circa 85 or probably lower. Add that American Indians are known for their hebetude there is no hope for them long term. How do I know? I lived on a Montana Indian Reservation for two years in the 1960s. My wife taught in an elementary school there. A colleague did IQ testing and other psychological testing of the Indians for the Federal Government during my stint there and I saw the data as it was being collected.
Been there. Nobody is surprised.
ReplyDeleteWhite Man's racism on display, fer sure. How come Pocahontas Warren isn't on the job trying to rectify the injustice?
ReplyDeleteTrue. What's the point?
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DeleteOne side exceling and the other giving up. Casino time.
ReplyDeleteI love your place C.W.
Visit Google Earth and get the WHOLE picture. If you pan to the left you are on the golf course; the casino; the aquarium; the baseball spring training complex; a host of rent and (Indian) tax paying conference and retail development; and a ton of very productive irrigated farm land...
ReplyDelete2 casinos and spring training camp for Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks plus a cement factory. Tribe is doing good for less than 10000 people.
ReplyDeleteThere is a similar photo that I think is far more illustrative of the concept of self inflicted disparity of the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
ReplyDeleteOr North and South Korea. Pity Cuba didn't get split likewise.
DeleteNo amount of money could convince me to live in the subdivision on the right side of the picture.
ReplyDeleteCould not afford the HOA fees. Much less live so packed together!!!grayman
DeleteJust the Salt River tribe keeping a decent buffer to keep the riff raff off the res.
ReplyDeleteWell Said, Sir!
DeleteSocialism on the left, capitalism on the right. Appropriate.
ReplyDeleteIQ difference explains the photo: mean IQ on right is 100 while on the left it is circa 85 or probably lower. Add that American Indians are known for their hebetude there is no hope for them long term. How do I know? I lived on a Montana Indian Reservation for two years in the 1960s. My wife taught in an elementary school there. A colleague did IQ testing and other psychological testing of the Indians for the Federal Government during my stint there and I saw the data as it was being collected.
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