Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> In article <iSfmc.6092$8S1.6015@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
> technohippie DeleteThis @myway.com wrote:
>
>
>>Point taken ... but karma is as karma does. What exactly did we do to
>>the native americans when we took their lands, women and children?
>
>
> Yeh, but we mostly did that in California after we drummed up a war
> against the Mexicans and pitched out their government in 1848. I make no
> judgements against our forefathers. What we would have thought, had we
> lived at the moment, would be far different than what we think today. Take
> it to the bank.
I'm sure there are as many, if not more, ethnocentrics now as then. But
I wasn't referring to our land grab from Mexico. I was thinking more of
the sweep of genocide and internment on reservations and dismissal of
treaties in the name of the good of the whole. I was thinking about
children ripped from their families and placed in white schools, beaten
for speaking their native language and denied their own culture.
So, we have to put up with chittering Asians in the elevator and we're
sure they're mocking us but they don't speak in English in public so
we're not sure. And all those noisy Mexican birthday parties. And,
what's with all those "ragheads" at the mall ... right?
So, Mexican immigrants are forcing the locals to let them into the
mainstream and alot of jobless/homeless/hardworking Americans are
bitter. But they were good enough to scrub our toilets and shine our
shoes ... now they're not good enough to gain their civil rights? Isn't
that slavery?
I'm an idiot and a fool. I can't help believing that someday we'll
learn that we have more in common with the rest of the world than
differences. Value judgements and language barriers are no longer an
excuse for discrimination. We're more evolved than that ... or we could be.
Judy
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