Penned August 26, 2010© Jim Great Elk Waters
This blog was hard to write, but needed to be stated.
Unfortunately many of my First People are inadvertent racist.
We have in our hatred for past wrongs done to our Ancestors, and even in this generation, used that broad brush that we so despise when used on us... to taint an entire section of world heritage… the “white race.”
Immigration control has always been a problem on this Great Turtle Island (The Americas) I asked my father Chief Ten Moons Watters one time, Pop, what was the biggest mistake our Ancestors ever made?” Without hesitation he replied, “Shoulda issued green cards.” He never mention a race.
It was never "whites," but more specifically, Europeans and later Americans who brought their Manifest Destiny to play. I am ashamed that I, as an American Indian have to correct such good meaning, loving and mostly in balance People...
but truth is, that if we use racist verbiage... we are racist.
It is time to stop, my Brothers and Sister.
Be specific, or be silent. Being wrong does us no good.
Thanks for listening.
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