“All of your naming examples are places, generally populated by a diverse range of people. The Cherokee ARE a people, not a place. Big difference.”

“I’ll give you the benefit of doubt that your first comment was merely regressive, culturally ignorant, and massively in-empathetic. All the try-hard, intellectually dishonest follow-ups attention g to justify it though? Willfully racist.”

None of that is racist.  Just repeating that a lot doesn’t make it so.

Does Boston Market owe compensation to the city & people of Boston?

You make a salient point that you could look at financial self-interest as fair or cynical. For example, was Martin Shkreli simply asserting his “legal rights” when he raised the price of the patented life-saving medicine he bought the rights to by 56-fold? My point is we can make value judgements independent of legal…

After the knee-jerk accusation of racism, your second paragraph makes a salient point. If we can get back to the subject of the article, there is a valid philosophical question over who should own the rights to the name of a nation or people. If you think that should be determined by the Cherokee, it’s an…

That is a strawman argument. I never belittled the suffering of Native Americans; I pointed out that there are other considerations and motivations behind things now.

Thank you for illustrating precisely what I’m talking about: You know as well as I that your “people” were not “death marched” BECAUSE of or “FOR” the Jeep Cherokee, but you choose to push that into the conversation to make this about unrelated historical wrongs. I’m accusing the Chief of exactly that, though with…

Picked it because it’s been in the news lately for woke fanaticism.

Welcome.

Please see my reply to Bubba68CS.

You are half-right. My example is admittedly anecdotal and, frankly, overly broad to draw a conclusion from. However, my more modest objective is to demonstrate, and by extension interject into the conversation, the possibility of a more self-serving and cynical motivation by the Chief; that the “cultural…

Klamath Termination act was 1953 and the rights were restored in 1986.

They generally call themselves Indians, but perhaps you were too busy deciding what was best for them to notice or ask.

“generational trauma”

I believe you mean the Jeep Grand Indigenous People. Stop spreading the hate.

It most certainly is a negotiation. I’ve worked with an Indian tribe and they’ve become very adept at playing the victim card. Usually it’s a shakedown for a payout; then they start to infighting over which of their own factions get it. See casinos, Keystone XL Pipeline, literally any government social program and now…

Sketch Monkey “fixed” several of these. In fact, he’s done the Juke twice and the Aztek several times (seems to be a strange obsession). Also Jeep FC is not ugly.

I will sell a kidney if the straight-six RWD Mazda 6 comes out with a manual. BMW should be afraid.

Like a base-head would say “I want base”.