Natives...like the handicapped...fucked over...again.
i just flipped thru the comments.
ouch, my eyes.
i am intrigued by the difference of opinions btn. people that live in similar areas, near or on Native land...and have (at first glance) had similar experiences with Native culture.
It's like hearing my friend from high school talk about not being able to sell rubbing alcohol to a few old men, that come into her work...
because they Native Alcoholics....
mm'kay.
A drunk is a drunk...his racial heritage doesn't matter.
her descripts always have this air of 'you don't know...you've never seen...' blahblah...
uhm, yeah...i'm from Idaho, for Christ's Sake. that attitude of You don't know Indians like I know Indians, is annoying...
that's like me playing the "well, my 1/2 family came here thru the Bering Strait...and YOU??"
haha.
whatever.
I'd get laughed in the face...and by my own cousins, if i pulled that crap.
makes me think of my old customer at CWC, calling me Sister, and asking me when I was going home...talking about Turtle and Coyote with me...
Makes me think of my friend Ken...and his cousins in OK...on Rez land...Who are ALL White...if you just glanced at them.
*shrugs*
i know very few white Rednex...who don't claim to be Cherokee...
maybe that's because of all the raping on the Trail, ehh? Manifest Destiny and all that...
but back to the article...
it's not a matter of Native Women's rapes are not being reported...the fact is that MOST WOMEN in the United States do not report rape.
1 in 15 mins, my friends.
spend a few hrs. doing the body count.
this should be something that Outrages us ALL...not just Whites...not just Natives...
RAPE is RAPE.
~~~
back to happier things.
i've finished 'Deathly Hallows'. loved it.
work's still extremely slow...but i am off today. glad to be. going to organize my comics, and take my fotos in to be developed. woot.
argh. paying rent is going to suck. ahh well.
c'est la vie, right?
alas, the girl that i had hoped to become Closer to, in an Eddie Izzard "Cup of Coffee" sort of way, has started to date a boy...boo.
*shrugs* perhaps we have dodged a bullet? there seems to be some drama starting up around said boy, too.
better he than i, i guess.
RHPS performance may not happen now, i think...it's in two weeks, and nothing has really been organized.
the little kitty dude is supposed to be coming over. YAY! that makes me very happy.
gretta sent me photos, of her daughter being held by The Wicked Tinkers. totally sweet.
organizing photos...woot!
cheers!
i just flipped thru the comments.
ouch, my eyes.
i am intrigued by the difference of opinions btn. people that live in similar areas, near or on Native land...and have (at first glance) had similar experiences with Native culture.
It's like hearing my friend from high school talk about not being able to sell rubbing alcohol to a few old men, that come into her work...
because they Native Alcoholics....
mm'kay.
A drunk is a drunk...his racial heritage doesn't matter.
her descripts always have this air of 'you don't know...you've never seen...' blahblah...
uhm, yeah...i'm from Idaho, for Christ's Sake. that attitude of You don't know Indians like I know Indians, is annoying...
that's like me playing the "well, my 1/2 family came here thru the Bering Strait...and YOU??"
haha.
whatever.
I'd get laughed in the face...and by my own cousins, if i pulled that crap.
makes me think of my old customer at CWC, calling me Sister, and asking me when I was going home...talking about Turtle and Coyote with me...
Makes me think of my friend Ken...and his cousins in OK...on Rez land...Who are ALL White...if you just glanced at them.
*shrugs*
i know very few white Rednex...who don't claim to be Cherokee...
maybe that's because of all the raping on the Trail, ehh? Manifest Destiny and all that...
but back to the article...
it's not a matter of Native Women's rapes are not being reported...the fact is that MOST WOMEN in the United States do not report rape.
1 in 15 mins, my friends.
spend a few hrs. doing the body count.
this should be something that Outrages us ALL...not just Whites...not just Natives...
RAPE is RAPE.
~~~
back to happier things.
i've finished 'Deathly Hallows'. loved it.
work's still extremely slow...but i am off today. glad to be. going to organize my comics, and take my fotos in to be developed. woot.
argh. paying rent is going to suck. ahh well.
c'est la vie, right?
alas, the girl that i had hoped to become Closer to, in an Eddie Izzard "Cup of Coffee" sort of way, has started to date a boy...boo.
*shrugs* perhaps we have dodged a bullet? there seems to be some drama starting up around said boy, too.
better he than i, i guess.
RHPS performance may not happen now, i think...it's in two weeks, and nothing has really been organized.
the little kitty dude is supposed to be coming over. YAY! that makes me very happy.
gretta sent me photos, of her daughter being held by The Wicked Tinkers. totally sweet.
organizing photos...woot!
cheers!
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Glad to hear others find resonance with my thoughts / stories. Someday i'll write the whole of it and we can compare notes ; )
glad you enjoyed the poem!
No rain out there? We had virtually none until last week and then the sky opened up for about 4 days. My Frenchie grapevines are happy now and so is my water bill. I may be drinking some homegrown Pinot Gris yet.