is that a duck I see?

I thought you were against anybody taking the land, and now you say the Indian thing is okay with you because it is working.  Shouldn't the fact that it is working make you even more against it?  And what does it mean that it is working?  What would be happening if it wasn't working?  So I assume they get some kind of tax break.  Isn't that why everybody does whatever they do in this country?

So how is this better than a black or Mexican guy buying my condo?  Sounds to me like it would be worse in your taking over scenario, because once the property goes into that Indian thing I assume it stays with the Indians, whereas the black or Mexican guy may well resell my condo to some other white guys?

The situation in Europe was much more complicated than primogeniture, but I believe mostly they came here to get rich, or richer.

There is less racial prejudice in Chicago than there was back in our day.  Well there's less everywhere.  When I moved back to Chicago to live in my parents' attic, I was dreading that talk, and I did get some of that from the white neighbors, but not that much.  The neighborhood was about two-thirds Mexican at that time, and by now it appears to be almost all Mexican.  I don't think the Mexicans took it over, mostly just the Irish and the Polacks got richer and moved out of the neighborhood, or got old and died.  And now a lot of the Mexicans who live there now are moving out to better homes in the burbs.

I get out there once a year and I think I told you the old hood still looks pretty good, lawns mowed, houses kept up.  Mexicans are big on lawn ornaments and there are a lot of those.  I think when we lived there the neighborhood would be described as blue collar, and I expect it would also be called that today.  But I have seen a couple food pantries outside churches which we never would have seen in our day, but times anymore are a lot tougher on the blue collars then they were in our day.

My limited observation is that the ghetto is still there to the east, and further west across Cicero there are a lot of whites, mostly like cops and firemen who are required to live in the city.  On the borders of the groups there is some integration, I hear that Marquette Park is integrated.  the racial tension I remember from my youth is not nearly so evident.

I didn't say I would rather admit Mexicans and Muslims than white people.  I said I would admit them both the same.

I never said you were a card carrying member of the tea party, but didn't you Birchers have a saying about if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck?  And since when do you guys care about winning anything?  You are always holding votes for stuff that will never pass, and holding up the government for some issue that you never win on.  Nobody dares run for speaker because you guys will tear him down like you did Boehner.  You don't want to run anything you just want to bitch, bitch,  bitch, and if you can throw a wrench into the government and raise the interest on the national debt that we all have to pay, why even better.