I had intended to make a video about my
experiences with police
in several countries including the USA.
I will still do that but
a few minutes ago i heard something on
Twitter
that upon reflection really
startles and shocks me. I've been
following
several Native -American women because
what they're saying...
I hear them, I agree with them and I find
them
inspiring and
empowering
but they turn out to be
the quintessential tunnel visioned
American for whom the rest of the world
does not exist.
They say that only Native-Americans
have lost lands and that
only Native-Americans have been killed.
They are talking about genocide. Well,
if you've ever had a few
history classes in primary school,
you know that that's not true - unless you
were in fairy tale school.
and that
really has sort of knocked me out. Ehm,
I don't know what to make of this. Is
this really that these women
are basically quintessential redneck
Americans without realizing it
or are they that selfish,
self-focused, self-centered
sort of like the
Nazis almost used to be
about a century ago in germany who felt
that
they were the only chosen people and
everybody else was
a danger and should be eradicated?
Ehm, I don't know what to make of this. I
found it
quite shocking. Initially I thought
"well, this has nothing to do with me" and
it doesn't
but all I have to do is think about
a friend of mine who's Jewish and
another person I've worked with who's
Jewish and who lost her entire family
not that long ago and all the
people in the rest of the world who have
been driven off their lands.
The British who've driven who drove the
Chagossians off their island.
You can go on and on and on and on. It
goes on in the world
everywhere, not just among Native-
Americans
and ehm I really don't know how to
interpret this. I'm
quite taken aback by this and I'm so
taken aback by it that I may be
off Twitter for good now because this is
so incredibly short-sighted
that I ehm
I'm shocked. I'm, I'm quite shocked by
this ehm
I'm not even sure that the
quintessential ehm
white redneck Americans would think in
such a way. Perhaps they would.
I mean this is, I found i found this
quite
shocking. I don't know whether they
simply weren't thinking about what they
were saying
or whether they really have tunnel
vision and
only see the meter around them and
nothing else and
I find this shocking. I find this really
shocking.
I find this shocking. I'm sorry ehm
I urge some of you to do some thinking
about this.
