[geeks] FW: [rescue] UPS Recommendation
vance at neurotica.com
vance at neurotica.com
Thu Jul 17 16:56:14 CDT 2003
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, N.Miller wrote:
> I have a friend who is of Comanche lineage (probably someone in his
> family kidnapped)--he takes great pleasure in reciting the hostile
> exploits of his ancestors and bursting the bubble of modern Caucasian
> apologists. (He's so not an apologist that he wrote the official
> history of the Texas Rangers-- no *not* baseball.)
>
> Please don't pretend that the Native Americans were all pastoral,
> peace-loving people. Many of them made war on each other quite
> regularly--they just didn't have the tech level to do the same to the
> Europeans who came over. It's happened the world over, and there's
> nothing to be done for it now, except help the remnants of their
> cultures survive in the modern world.
But nowhere in this is anything which gives the Europeans the
justification for having simply waltzed in and taken others' land.
Peace... Sridhar
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