Little Bird

Private Babbling
2001-07-03 17:22:09 (UTC)

Something I feel strongly about...

Birthday pans were somewhat squished...

We bred Comet last night.

Jimmy got stepped on by a horse and had to go to Condell.

I may be taking Comet on a 50 mile ride soon.

I'm enjoying this time away from A & J!

My divorce was final last Friday...custody & support hasn't
been arranged yet.

The following thought has been dancing in my head lately so
I had to write it out...

Something I feel strongly about has been on my mind a lot
lately for the simple fact that I have no one to talk to
about it without causingsome sort of friction between
myself and people around me. What I have to say might ofend
some of you, for that I apologize in advance. This is just
the way I see things.

A couple of months ago I saw a news story about a slave
ship traveling to different ports in Africa. I don't know
how it was reported, just that the ports were turning it
away and encouraging other ports to do the same. It had
children, African children, aboard to be sold as slaves.
They didn't make it sound unusual that a ship would be
floating around selling children. They made it sound
unusual that the prots would be turning the ship away.

Thruought history there have been reports that Africans
were/are used as slaves to, specificaly, British. I am not
a historian but I do read quite a bit. I also have learned
that when the Brits came over to America they brought the
slaves or endetured servants they had in England to farm
the wild frontier of America.
I think it is TOTALY UNFAIR that we Americans should be
attacked by African Americans because we are white. I had
nothing to do with the slavery. My family was from Germany,
Hungary, Italy, and NATIVE AMERICAN. I am the fourth
generation to live on this continent and the whole time my
family lived here, my mother's side lived in Chicago and my
father's side lived in a shanty an the Mississippi River.
There are times when I am so disscusded with what
the 'settlers' did to 'America' that I want to die. Pushing
the Native Americans onto a tiny plot of land called
Oklahoma was selfish and just plain unacceptable. Compared
to the African American population Natives still live in
depression and poverty. They were never freed from the
reservation and given a mule and plot of land. They never
got to rumage thru the settler's belongings and take what
they wanted. They were murdered and caged like animals. I
can not believe they were/are treated this way after they
tought the people of this America how to clear land to grow
food.

African Americans want 'us' to pay for their hardships...I
say Bullshit! This is the land of the free, suposedly. Get
off your ass and work just like the African Americans did
who are now wealthy. No one is keeping you in the urban
areas. No one is making you buy Tommy Hillfiger (or
whatever) jeans and shirts to wear to public aid and cry
broke. I'm sick of seeing you down there with your cell
phones and gold hoop earings. Save the money and buy a
house out in the burbs.
If Natives got off their reservations I'm sure the
government would have something to say about that. I feel
sorry for my people. I know I would be rejected because I
have adopted many ways of the outside wolrd but my heart is
still held in the palm of my elders. I wish they were
allowed the same freedoms as everyone else. They are torn
between two worlds.
To those African Americans reading this you may understand
my feelings more if you thought about the white man coming
to your Africa, putting you in a cage or making you walk
hundreds of miles to be relocated to a place you are
unfamiliar with. I know the Brits did take over parts of
your mother land but you are living in America and I don't
think you get the full effect of the intrusian.
Don't ever think that your governments back then, when the
Brits were capturing slaves, and now, as they are
proclaiming ownership of your African lands, was not
corrupt. History repeats its self and I believe that there
could have been tribe owners that were paid off in order to
capture some of the strong warriors of that culture. I will
take the blow too and admit that I believe some of the
Native elders could have been bribed to relocate.

The point of my rambling is that I don't think it's fair to
celebrate just one minority or coddle one minority. We are
all unique and we all have hardships in our life. Don't
look for a handout because of things that happend 150 years
ago or because your skin is a different color.




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