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Sun Sep 26, 2010 at 14:06:16 PM PDT
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My father knew what it was like to go hungry.
Even before the onset of the Great Depression, his family was intimately familiar with hunger. Mixed-blood Indians living off the rez, in an area where cowards on horseback stalked the countryside in sheets and white hoods, were not the most "employable." Gramps traveled miles every day, on foot, looking for work. Sometimes he'd find something; just as often, he'd come trudging home, late at night, with nothing to show for it but sore feet and an empty stomach. If he was lucky, someone might hire him for 16 hours of backbreaking labor in exchange for a sack of beans, or a little rice - or on a really good day, a whole chicken (that Grandma had to pluck and dress). Most often, the beans or rice were served without salt, pepper, butter, or anything else.
To his dying day, my father hated rice.
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Thu Oct 02, 2008 at 15:35:11 PM PDT
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Martin Van Buren was better at acquiring presidential power than using it for himself. Van Buren was elected president in 1836, but he saw financial problems beginning even before he entered the White House.
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Mon Sep 22, 2008 at 15:58:30 PM PDT
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American fascism is the term used by Dr. James Luther Adams, who "was in Germany in 1935 and 1936 and worked with the underground anti-Nazi church." He said that American fascists would dismantle the open society, using scripture, during "prolonged social instability or a national crisis." Either of those conditions certainly meets the living conditions on many reservations of their social structure and their Nation. I argue from definition that "Christian fascists" or American fascists are appropriate to be applied to those who christianize Indigenous People as well as to be applied to those who committed "the slaughters of yesteryear" for the following reasons:
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Sat Sep 06, 2008 at 08:12:19 AM PDT
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Take a real good look at her face - not at her fake smile, but look into her eyes.
What do you see?
Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is "Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean"
"It was kind of disgusting," Lucille, who is part Aboriginal, said in a phone interview after admitting that she is frightened of being discovered telling folks in the "lower 48" about life near the North Pole.
I see the eyes of a racist and a global warming denier. Sad indeed; and, her racism helps to clarify how climate disintegration is a human rights issue.
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