No, we didn’t destroy them. They are here doing good work, thinking wise thoughts, making great art, surviving. If we ‘destroyed them’ where did Obama, Keith Ellison, Cori Bush, Audrey Lorde, MLK, John Lewis, Harriet Tubman, John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Sherman Alexie, Louise Erdrich, Deb Haaland, Scott Momaday, Buff…
No, we didn’t destroy them. They are here doing good work, thinking wise thoughts, making great art, surviving. If we ‘destroyed them’ where did Obama, Keith Ellison, Cori Bush, Audrey Lorde, MLK, John Lewis, Harriet Tubman, John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Sherman Alexie, Louise Erdrich, Deb Haaland, Scott Momaday, Buffy St Marie and Black Elk come from? We white people made their lives hard and took from them everything they loved, yes, but don’t seem to know how to destroy them.
But I think it's important to address the idea of slavery early. Wasn't their choice. Then we "Freed" them, and began suppressing their rights over all? And how to you grow from there when it is so difficult to start from scratch. And not to sound like it was a given favor. We let every other "nationality" into this country. And yes all had difficulties, but ones color of their skin became an insurmountable hurdle. Yes we've done good, but we can do so much more. Just my thoughts, but until you experience racism, or any kind of suppression, one just can't understand totally. WE cab't turn our heads. And right now we are. I remember when Hunter Thompson, in his book "On the campaign Trail, "72", interviewed Nixon and asked him, "But what about the doomed sir?". He replied, " Eff the doomed". I believe many are feeling the same way. And it makes me sad, and angry. Again. If you have give. Peace all. ( I know there are two sides, but in the middle is what counts. Lets meet there).
Mike yes yes yes, 100% agreement! I didn't intend my comment as a defense of White people or their dominance! I meant it as respect to the enslaved people and the indigenous inhabitants, that they could survive cruelty and barbarism as great as we know it to be, that they could triumph over it to that degree. They hold all the moral cards. It is centuries past time for reparations but we must be active about seeing to it that serious discussion takes place while Democrats are quasi-powerful in Congress. That topic has gone totally silent, after a lot of media attention last year.
Not even that. The Indians I know still speak their languages, hunt, raise horses, grow corn and beans. One resurrected the Wampanoag language at MIT weith Chomsky's help,from a single surving early 18th-century bilingual New Testament and taught it to her infant daughter, whose first lanuage it was--after 2 centuries! and it's spreading. Lots don't, I know: Euro-Americans (including Canadians) tried hard to make them ignorant of their way of life and their languages, basically kidpnapping them into boarding schools for that purpose, "Indian Schools." I'm just saying they persisted, and worked from traces, and treasured the old people who remembered, and in some areas were not even deracinated, like northern British Columbia etc. And they are scholars, writing their own histories now. Bravo!
No, we didn’t destroy them. They are here doing good work, thinking wise thoughts, making great art, surviving. If we ‘destroyed them’ where did Obama, Keith Ellison, Cori Bush, Audrey Lorde, MLK, John Lewis, Harriet Tubman, John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Sherman Alexie, Louise Erdrich, Deb Haaland, Scott Momaday, Buffy St Marie and Black Elk come from? We white people made their lives hard and took from them everything they loved, yes, but don’t seem to know how to destroy them.
But I think it's important to address the idea of slavery early. Wasn't their choice. Then we "Freed" them, and began suppressing their rights over all? And how to you grow from there when it is so difficult to start from scratch. And not to sound like it was a given favor. We let every other "nationality" into this country. And yes all had difficulties, but ones color of their skin became an insurmountable hurdle. Yes we've done good, but we can do so much more. Just my thoughts, but until you experience racism, or any kind of suppression, one just can't understand totally. WE cab't turn our heads. And right now we are. I remember when Hunter Thompson, in his book "On the campaign Trail, "72", interviewed Nixon and asked him, "But what about the doomed sir?". He replied, " Eff the doomed". I believe many are feeling the same way. And it makes me sad, and angry. Again. If you have give. Peace all. ( I know there are two sides, but in the middle is what counts. Lets meet there).
Mike yes yes yes, 100% agreement! I didn't intend my comment as a defense of White people or their dominance! I meant it as respect to the enslaved people and the indigenous inhabitants, that they could survive cruelty and barbarism as great as we know it to be, that they could triumph over it to that degree. They hold all the moral cards. It is centuries past time for reparations but we must be active about seeing to it that serious discussion takes place while Democrats are quasi-powerful in Congress. That topic has gone totally silent, after a lot of media attention last year.
OK, fair enough. I stand corrected. We destroyed their way of life.
Not even that. The Indians I know still speak their languages, hunt, raise horses, grow corn and beans. One resurrected the Wampanoag language at MIT weith Chomsky's help,from a single surving early 18th-century bilingual New Testament and taught it to her infant daughter, whose first lanuage it was--after 2 centuries! and it's spreading. Lots don't, I know: Euro-Americans (including Canadians) tried hard to make them ignorant of their way of life and their languages, basically kidpnapping them into boarding schools for that purpose, "Indian Schools." I'm just saying they persisted, and worked from traces, and treasured the old people who remembered, and in some areas were not even deracinated, like northern British Columbia etc. And they are scholars, writing their own histories now. Bravo!