The American Indians sold Manhattan to the Dutch for $700 i… - Dinesh D'Souza

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The American Indians sold Manhattan to the Dutch for $700 in today's money. My point is, that's what Manhattan was worth then. It was useless, it was just a piece of land, like any other piece of land which you can buy today for $700 in many places in the world. Manhattan today is the result of the people who built it, not the original inhabitants who occupied or sold it.

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Dinesh Joseph D'Souza (born April 25, 1961) is an Indian-born American political commentator, filmmaker, and author.

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