Comments on: Buried But Not Forgotten http://tribecacitizen.com/2010/03/02/buried-but-not-forgotten/ Tribeca News, Advice, and Info Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:25:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lucille Abato http://tribecacitizen.com/2010/03/02/buried-but-not-forgotten/comment-page-1/#comment-2093 Lucille Abato Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:37:19 +0000 http://tribecacitizen.com/?p=4183#comment-2093 Shameful, shameful, shameful...but what can you expect from a country that small-poxed the indians into decimation. It's really hard to be an American in these times when so much is being unearthed (literally and figuratively), If you never had to pay a person a salary and they did all your work for you, and you used them sexually as well, (the fear factor always works), small wonder that you got rich and your plantations thrived. I visited the African Burial Ground about 9 years ago when they were planning to expand. I saw the picures of the dead (all bones now), and left in tears. Shameful, shameful, shameful…but what can you expect from a country that small-poxed the indians into decimation.
It’s really hard to be an American in these times when so much is being
unearthed (literally and figuratively),
If you never had to pay a person a salary and they did all your work for you, and you used them sexually as well, (the fear factor always works),
small wonder that you got rich and your plantations thrived.

I visited the African Burial Ground about 9 years ago when they were planning to expand. I saw the picures of the dead (all bones now), and left in tears.

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