Wanna' Know About Terror? Ask a Native American (What We’re Up Against) | Mickey Z.

[Tace]

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

April 28, 2013

“I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.”

- Black Elk

Prologue: In the 1999 film Run, Lola, Run, the female protagonist is magically given three chances to cope with a dodgy situation. Like having a reset button on a video game, if Lola screws up, she gets to go back and start from the beginning.

Many people imply that unless a critic expounds a specific strategy for change, his/her assessment is worthless or, at the very least, too negative. This reaction misses the essential role critical analysis plays in a society where problems -- and their causes -- are so cleverly disguised. When discussing the future, the first step is often an identification and demystification of the past and present.

In order for us to hit the reset button, we must collectively agree that we got it wrong the first time.

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[love_katz]

1. Exactly.

Excellent read...with miserable truths.

Thanks for the link.

[Tace]

5. Thanks love_katz

Mickey's great. Cheers

[Triana]

2. K & R, bookmarked and shared. n/t

[heaven05]

3. wow!

I read that article and have read Zinn among numerous others of the native-american holocaust. I love when the truth of our (d)emocracy is revealed for the world to see. Great to see important essays such as this. Great! Tace.:

[bvar22]

4. "In order for us to hit the reset button,

....we must collectively agree that we got it wrong the first time. "


Profound.


"Terror is what poor people worldwide feel when approached by uniformed, armed men;

what animals feel in research laboratories;

what people feel when their families are faced with starvation;

what a child feels when an adult starts to hit;

what millions of families feel when they hear planes overhead;

what fish feel when hooked in the mouth; what people feel under threat of having loved ones tortured or killed;

what forest dwellers feel when the loggers come in to clear-cut;

what people feel when they are threatened with invasion; and what animals feel at slaughterhouses."

[unionthug777]

6. being a native american......

i absolutely love the excuse: " you're a conquered people"...as to why i have to speak "english"....and adhere to "YOUR" laws....now i know this happened a long long time ago and i can't blame my fellow workers for these heinous crimes ( always wanted to use that word heinous..lol) most of my friends DO believe the natives were seriously screwed over...i DO spearfish, and if that upsets you...too bad....i DO net fish...if that bothers you as well....oh well....that was the way of my people long ago....and it is "protected" under a treaty......enough of the ranting and raving.......that is all i have to say at this time. thank you for your patience....

[midnight]

7. K&R

"Many Americans reflexively defend their country's rampant illegalities because they perceive these actions as falling under the seductive justification of defending the “way of life” I described above."