Comments on: Tribal casino in Rohnert Park clears last hurdle

By: Skippy

Skippy — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:30:04 +0000

@RC,
bear believes white Americans can never be redeemed from the twin sins of black slavery and Indian wars.
All of us, no matter if we emigrated from Sweden last week will ever be free of those stains on our national past.
Thusly, all white Americans will always owe the Indians…everything.
This childish hatred is poisonous and infectious.
Staying resentful about things that never happened to you or acting out of guilt over a sin you never committed is madness or stupidity. It matters not which is the motive, reparations are like heroin. It feels good until the buzz wears off, and there is never enough to satisfy the hunger.
Greed, jealousy and self-loathing are the roots of such foolish views.
Reparations, schmeparations.
I say it’s generational racial bribery and I say to hell with it.

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By: Reality Check

Reality Check — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:57:26 +0000

bear,

Are we responsible for the wrongs of previous generations? There isn’t a single foot of habitable earth that hasn’t change hands by force of some means. Not a single foot. Nope, that doesn’t make any of it right. But the idea that we can right the wrongs of history is a notion well beyond our capacity.

History is full of examples of forced assimilation. It happens. In most cases, the sooner the better. In the case of Native Americans, we’ve compounded our sins by trying to assuage our guilt by keeping them is a state of permanent welfare.

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By: bear

bear — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:59:38 +0000

Good thing that there was no genocide of Native Americans. You understand – planned murder, just like the Nazis.

If we give them only casinos as compensation, then they are entitled to
casinos.

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By: Penny train

Penny train — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 20:52:43 +0000

What will the casino look like? is there a floor plan yet?

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By: Jean Anderson

Jean Anderson — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:28:15 +0000

The new American way – the many suffer so the few can profit from an idiotic and unwanted project.

Boxer, Brown and the other morons who allowed this to happen are true enemies of the people.

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By: Manuel

Manuel — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:06:12 +0000

OK, it’s going forward, if these tribes can’t respect mother earth how then they give a percent of the money that they well earn to all the schools in sonoma county.

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By: Reality Check

Reality Check — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 19:01:55 +0000

Brown may have approved the deal, but he too was cornered by a federal law that passed only because of the actions of Lynn Woolsey and Barbara Boxer.

It recognized a few hundred Miwok and Pomo Indians under the Graton Rancheria label and included rights to build a casino. A year or so later, Boxer’s son and attorney, Donald Boxer, began working on the casino project. Imagine that!

Neither California nor Rohnert Park could stop this. They made the best deal they could. I’m afraid the corruption took place at a higher level.

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By: Missy

Missy — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 17:31:13 +0000

Who approved this? Jerry Brown. Most people in the North Bay voted for him and all the Democrats. VOTES HAVE CONSEQUENCES.

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By: GAJ

GAJ — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 17:18:02 +0000

Not a project I support in any fashion but the fight, (there never really was one), is over…move on.

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By: 20/20 vision

20/20 vision — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 06:17:39 +0000

@Reality Check – You are completely right.

But you have to remember that Mike Healy just loooves to see his name in the paper, regardless of the reason. He will tell the people that this is some sort of noble cause, when in fact, it’s a done deal like you said. Healy certainly can’t get his name in the paper for doing something actually good for the people. He doesn’t ever do anything to deserve that sort of accolade.

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By: Reality Check

Reality Check — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:49:01 +0000

Further legal appeals are a waste of money. This deal is done. If cities or counties want to fight this kind of imposition from the federal government, their fight is with the politicians responsible.

But they won’t take them on. Rather, they launch a pretend fight against the law, ignoring the local and state politicians responsible. Voters need to see what’s going on, and act.

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