Monday Town Hall with Ruggles

[Punatic007]

The Dillinghams and other sons of the missionaries DID con the Hawaiians, but the American government did not. We were and have always been exceedingly good to people of Hawaii.

All of history is wrought with inequities. My great grandparents were run out of Sweden for political reasons, their lands and money confiscated. Didn't take long before they made fabulous lives for themselves here in USA. My grandfather their son was a flight surgeon in WW2 then had a medical practice in Beverly Hills. Now should I go to Sweden and demand the land and monies they lost or should I stay grown up and continue to realize that all of history is wrought with inequities and continue to embrace growth thru challenges? Should I go there and demand to displace the people who live on my ancestral lands? Should I demand of the Swedish government my family money given back to me causing higher taxation to the citizens of Sweden?

It's so not challenging when I listen to this same lame argument over and over again by those who don't care about all of the innocent people who have come and gone since their ancestors were incorporated into the safety and great benefit of being US citizens of their own volition.