Originally Posted by roachboy

fine points, gentlemen.

raheja, a native american person who teaches native american literature and who is also a parent, should stop being such a drag---suck it up, accept the white fantasy origin-myth of what ended up a genocide, and move on.

nothing to see here folks.

i mean, it's a public holiday for christ's sake and none of them has anything to do with history--the fourth of july--nothing to do with history; memorial day--nothing to do with history. it's a holiday---you know, a moment that enables us all to gather together and thank the kind of god that obviously endorsed genocide, since so much of it was carried out in his name, for the fact that on the bones of these folk a different country grew up, one that didn't loose a war and so can pretend to itself that genocide never happened.
but most of all, we can give thanks that we weren't native american.

who could have a problem with that?
only a party-pooper.

sheesh, this stuff continues and people might get the sense that what they've been taught is a little fucked up.
wouldn't want that would we.