Re: native people
Lawrence F. London, Jr. (london@metalab.unc.edu)
Sat, 20 Nov 1999 09:33:41 -0500 (EST)
> Who is native and who is not is a question that will have to be
> resolved in the next century, because the picture is getting blurred.
> Take me: I'm a Swiss native; 200 years ago, that canton of mine was
> not yet Swiss, it was German. That is, Germany as we know it didn't
> even exist at the time either. So who am I ? Maybe I can find a paper
> some day saying that my ancestor soandso got expelled from his farm by
> soandsuch, whose descendants live there now; can I go to them and tell
> them to give me my ancestor's farm back ? There is a point where you
> just have to get over it, that is: forgive - to liberate yourself and
> others from the burden of the past - but not forget - to liberate
> yourself and others from the burden of repeating the same mistakes.
> There is a time (every night) to cry in your pillow over the stupidity
> of man, and there is a time (every day) to stand up and prove it
> doesn't have to be that way. I hope I don't offend any native person
> here by saying this, but when we want to see reality, not just look at
> Chinese genocide in Tibet. Hey Zipperbilly, why don't you drop a few
> bombs over Peking ? And to those who would hold that the "white man"
They helped get him elected, in gratitude he gave them nukes to drop on
_us_.
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