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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jedi Weyoun: [QB] *sighs, rolls her eyes, and steps back up on her NAS soap box* ALright--here's my bit. I'm majoring in anthropology, specifically, I wanted to study Native American Cultures. So, happily I signed up for NAS (native american studies) 150, expecting it would be about culture and such. [b]W R O N G[/b]. The class was basically a poli-sci thing. all about the government and all this. SO many times, i sat in that room for 50 minutes, one of 4 or 5 white folks in a room of 20 Native people, and I felt like the readings and discussions were just yelling down at me "you BAD WHITE! you what you've done to our people!!" Now, looking back, i DID learn a lot from this class, but my response to the claim that I am in some part to blame is this: BULL SHIT. period. that's it. i do not consider myself responsible for things that my 'ancestors' may have done. especially considering my family wasn't even over here until about 200 years ago. and yet, we are to believe that because we are white americans, we are the ones responsible. no matter what our involvement is in the issue. this class has really educated me, and i can see the picture much more clearly now. granted, there ARE people out there who are still causing these problems. but i am not one of them. i have never been a racist, or prejudiced against people, thank God. And it really does hurt me when a stigma is attached to me because i'm white, in a native community. i have learned SO much about this going to university out in New Mexico. trust me. take an example, though. 2000 years ago, during and before Christ's ministry, if a person was mute, deaf, lame, leprous, or had any other physical problem, then it was because they, or even more likely, their parents, had committed some sin that caused them to be born like that. these days we KNOW that's not the case. so if that wasn't true, why is THIS true? and it IS the same thing, if you think about it. so who then should bear the responsibility of, for example, paying taxes for the benefit of things like the IHS--Indian Health Service? Americans, of course. But not because our grandparents are the ones who hurt them to begin with. rather, because we are a NATION. We share this continent, and if we want to survive, we have to pull together and play this game as a team. THAT is how i view all of this now. i do not feel a responsibility out of guilt, because I am not guilty of these crimes. My responsibility, and that of others, is still a moral one, but of a different note. we must help because help is needed, not because there is some obligation to be met. *sighs and steps off soapbox* [/QB][/QUOTE]
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