Reply #85: You really don't know what NAFTA is, do you? [View All]

It's a step in the same direction that the EU has taken towards economic integration. If the baseline for such policies was "brown people", we would never have any sort of trade agreement at all, but rather we would have taken all of Mexico for ourselvles after the Mexican American war and deported the "brown people". The prime incentive has been and always will be economics. Same with the Native Americans. Doesn't matter what the skin color is, it's what was best economically or foriegn policy-wise for the US, treaties be damned. Of course, other nations (especially then) acted in this way as well. Including Native American nations. Treaty breaking is a time-honored practice.

It's why the US didn't get involved for the longest time in WW1 or WW2. There, lots of whites were being killed, many of them our closest allies, but we were making money off of staying neutral.

Anyone who blames it all on "brown people" bigotry is either ignorant, or looking for a reason to divide the nation by color lines.