| Original-Sender: sjpalmer@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
|
| Wow, lyn
|
| That was a very strange outpouring of venom against what I see as
| a very reasonable protest. Why are you so scared of the response of the
| "Non-Indian Public?" Some of the responses may be hostile, but think what
| history would be like if every group seeking to set history--and therefore
| the present--straight tried your path of least resistance? In the 1950s,
| when Blacks said "we want civil rights," the "average Joe" said "what on
| earth are you talking about?" Yet if hadn't been for the bus boycotts, the
| lunch-counter sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, the outright confrontations with
| the establishments, legal rights wouldn't have come for many more years.
| The same goes for the wonderful history of direct action, confrontation, and
| hell-raising that exists behind EVERY MAJOR ADVANCE IN HISTORY for women,
| labor, Blacks, all people. People might initially dismiss protests, but the
| struggle never dies. Many people, like in the Vietnam war, overcame their
| initial resistance to a just cause because a few daring individuals were
| willing to put their bodies and lives on the line, and this willingness shook
| undecided people up.
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Hmmmm .... I need to edit my responses "off screen" before sending...
I would HATE to think that anyone could ever classify me as following
the path of least resistance! Being heavily involved in jewish causes, and
a 60's hippy involved in HEAVY anti-vietname stuff, more 60's civil rights
stuff, etc., I've never followed the "least resistance" path in anything.
BUT, being a light-skinned member of the Indian Community has afforded me
the opportunity of seeing, first-hand, how self-destructive it has been in
the past for the Indian Community to WHINE about every thing that offends
them. As for supporting Aim ..... I USED to ... until they discredited them-
selves once too often. Actions speak a LOT louder than words.
.... by the way, don't read anything into me not responding to your mail
until now .... I had surgery on my wrist (CTS from too much typing) 3
weeks prior to your message and I haven't been up to reading/dealing with
the humungous volume of e.mail ... I'm only now going thru 520 messages and
sorting out the ones that ARE NOT general NatNet listings. The others
will be shuffled and categorized tomorrow...or the next day, or the next, or
the next .... oy vey, such a job!
lyn