President Obama's choice of Sitting Bull as a hero?

[Guest]

What do you think of Sitting Bull as a person to hold up to kids as a hero. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1330188/Barack-Obama-names-Sitting-Bull-inspirational-American-new-childrens-book.html?

[Guest]

is on a very different wave length than the rest of us in America.

Confirmed every day by what and how he says things and what he does and does not do.

btk

[Guest]

is on a very different wave length than the rest of us in America.

Confirmed every day by what and how he says things and what he does and does not do.

btk

:agree:

Yoda

[Guest]

What can I say, the man is an imbecile!

[Guest]

What can I say, the man is an imbecile!

On behave of imbeciles everywhere, I resent that comment. We feel that Obama is a few pegs below us.:pepper2:

[Guest]

Ok, obviously I'm missing something.

What's wrong with Sitting Bull? The article from the UK mentions the massacre at Little Big Horn but neglects to mention that Custer's troops were invading Sioux lands because of gold discovered in the Black Hills.

Sitting Bull was defending his land. The almost-complete genocide of indigenous people is one of the two national disgraces that this country has performed (slavery being the other).

Of all the things in which I take pride in my country, and they are numerous, those two topics will never be among them.

Or is the negativity towards the naming of "Sitting Bull" because (if memory serves) he did NOT consider himself an American? He considered himself Sioux.

[Guest]

Ok, obviously I'm missing something.

What's wrong with Sitting Bull? The article from the UK mentions the massacre at Little Big Horn but neglects to mention that Custer's troops were invading Sioux lands because of gold discovered in the Black Hills.

Sitting Bull was defending his land. The almost-complete genocide of indigenous people is one of the two national disgraces that this country has performed (slavery being the other).

Of all the things in which I take pride in my country, and they are numerous, those two topics will never be among them.

Or is the negativity towards the naming of "Sitting Bull" because (if memory serves) he did NOT consider himself an American? He considered himself Sioux.

:agree::agree::agree:

If this is all you got now you are really reaching.