From: maedhros@yabbs
To: cochise@yabbs
Subject: indians
Date: Mon Jan 17 02:42:07 1994

Did yo read Rothanne's post?  How'd it make you feel?  I bet I know.  No I 
don't share all of Rothanne's viewpoints, but it brings up a good point.  
I know exactly how pissed off it made you, as pissed off as I get when I 
hear someone say what 'we' (the white Americans) did to someone.  It's a 
broad and fictitious stereotype which is invoked when ever someone wants 
to be treated better than someone else or wishes to vent there anger on 
someone.  'We' did this or 'we' did that.  I can sum up all my 
sociopolitical power fairly quickly:  I'm a starving student who works two 
jobs to put himself through school.  I would have got a scholarship, but 
I'm ineligible for most of the ones which aren't taken up because 'we' 
decided that 'I', not in a minority, wasn't eligible.  If I sound 
resentful, sorry.  It doesn't piss me off really, that's just life, you 
take what your dealt.  However, when someone talks to me of the injustices 
'my' (whoever the hell they are, for the life of me I don't recall ever 
meeting any of them) people have done to them, I'm afraid it falls on deaf 
ears.  Life not treating you fair, hey join the planet.  At least your a 
minority.  You can get more help than I can.  What do the indians want?  
More money?  Not from this 'we', this we doesn't have anything to take.  
From the government?  Good luck, they're three trillion in the hole.  You 
want to have an uprising?  Fine, take the damn thing over.  Careful 
though, you might get what you ask for.  I wouldn't take the government 
over if you paid me.  Well, ok, maybe if you paid me a lot, but I'd 
probably regret it.  But like I said, if you feel like you're being used 
as a dartboard, it's probably a good assumption that you insulted and 
unjustly accused someone of a crime simply because of their heritage.  By 
the way, that's racism.

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