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Nov. 26th, 2002 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
transmothrathis week, i will wear at least one article of black clothing a day, in honour of all the dead Indians who we white people killed because we were disloyal and ungrateful. how's that grab ya? a holiday called "Thanksgiving" that becomes such a tradition mainly among ingrates and descendants of ingrates!
i will give thanks for the fact that at least white people did stop just short of succeeding in their genocidal plans for ethnic cleansing of the American Indian.
mostly, i will give thanks that the world was blessed by a people such as they, who should have retaliated more than they actually did. they in fact should rise up again and kill all the white people on this continent, (okay, that's maybe a little harsh, heheh) ...at least rid the place of us, but they probably won't. why? who knows. any attempt at explaining it would have to rely on oversimplified mass generalisation, like "they're Good People". oh well, a lot of them are, so there.
how many things do you know about hippies? (probably a lot.)
how many things do you know about New World Indians? (probably not much.)
it's funny... i realised this years ago, but it was articulated perfectly a few years ago in the wonderful movie Smoke Signals (highly recommended film, especially for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
flooding, if she's still on her Indian kick):
white people want to be Indians, especially in the 60s when people were having their own little versions of vision quests on LSD and mescaline, and so they dressed up in homemade clothing and wore sandals and beads and long hair and pass pipes around. probably why i don't identify with hippies so much anymore... on top of being accidental conformists (oh, hi goth kids!), they're also mostly a bunch of fakes. look at those Boomer bastards now - most of them sold out and now vote Republican.
anyways:
THANK YOU TO ALL THE INDIANS OF THE AMERICAS!!
i will give thanks for the fact that at least white people did stop just short of succeeding in their genocidal plans for ethnic cleansing of the American Indian.
mostly, i will give thanks that the world was blessed by a people such as they, who should have retaliated more than they actually did. they in fact should rise up again and kill all the white people on this continent, (okay, that's maybe a little harsh, heheh) ...at least rid the place of us, but they probably won't. why? who knows. any attempt at explaining it would have to rely on oversimplified mass generalisation, like "they're Good People". oh well, a lot of them are, so there.
how many things do you know about hippies? (probably a lot.)
how many things do you know about New World Indians? (probably not much.)
it's funny... i realised this years ago, but it was articulated perfectly a few years ago in the wonderful movie Smoke Signals (highly recommended film, especially for
flooding, if she's still on her Indian kick):white people want to be Indians, especially in the 60s when people were having their own little versions of vision quests on LSD and mescaline, and so they dressed up in homemade clothing and wore sandals and beads and long hair and pass pipes around. probably why i don't identify with hippies so much anymore... on top of being accidental conformists (oh, hi goth kids!), they're also mostly a bunch of fakes. look at those Boomer bastards now - most of them sold out and now vote Republican.
anyways:
THANK YOU TO ALL THE INDIANS OF THE AMERICAS!!
