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- From: Peshewegunzh <mthvax.cs.miami.edu!mamia!peshe>
- Subject: Re: Reply to Peshewegunzh
- Message-ID: <9301200325.AA00258@mamia.tecumseh.edu>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 08:25:58 GMT
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- Original Sender: Peshewegunzh <mthvax.cs.miami.edu!mamia!peshe>
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- > Original Sender: "Gerard Philippe Menos" <firestone.Princeton.EDU!gpmenos>
-
- > I have wondered if you are a CS student at the university of miami,
- > running around in Nikes.
-
- To be connected to NativeNet, it is most convenient to have access to
- an educational institution's computers. I once joked with
- someone that as the department's night janitor, I was able to get access to
- a terminal when nobody was around to see. Now, that's not the case, but
- although I have neither a high school diploma nor a college
- degree, (nor am I working on either) I do have access to an account on
- a system with links to a university, under the auspices of the Tecumseh
- Educational Foundation.
-
- > Please do not be offended by my apparent trivializations and
- > stereotyping --these characterizations are only meant to point out
- > that it is far too late to avoid some extent of assimilation.
-
- I think it's important to use some of the tools that have developed
- in modern times, rather than become caught up and lost in them,
- which appears to be the overarching characteristic of American
- culture and society. That is the difference between empowering
- survival and the surrender that is assimilation. It seems to me that
- this is what you are saying in some of your other comments.
-
- > It sounds like you also have your own blindspot here, as you also
- > seem to have a preconception as to who is the "good" Indian (those
- > who agree with your particular polarisation) and who is the "bad"
- > Indian (those who have a differing view, to any degree).
-
- I have some views which are the products of some strong experiences.
- However, I'm pretty tender about being too hard on other Indians.
- I don't think you can point to any statement where I've characterized
- those Indian individuals who don't hold my exact opinion as "bad." I
- usually reserve that appellation for the behavior of those who've put
- them between a rock and a hard place! When another Indian speaks on
- an issue to do with Indians, I have to consider his views because no
- doubt he's lived it out.
-
- > As one born in Haiti, with some roots still there, I believe that
- > things are not quite so black and white as you are conveying, yet
- > again.
- >
- > In my opinion, the new Administration has many areas in which to
- > prove themselves as agents of "change." Depending on what they do,
- > over the course of --say-- the next 3 months, will show us if they
- > Bill Clinton was sincere or not in his various campaign promises.
-
- The new harsher measures against Haitians who only seek what the
- Europeans now here originally sought, were put in place at the
- direction and request of the incoming administration. I guess as
- Indians who were willing to share with those earlier refugees,
- that despite the depredations, many of us still are willing to
- share with the Haitians, too. I think Americans who've bought into
- the comfort culture have lost the true spirit of what was supposed
- to happen here, which was represented in the extending of welcome
- to those hapless colonists by the indigenous peoples.
-
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