Poor Indians
My response, "did you do something to me that I don't know about?" "No, I am talking about way back when", they say,"well, I wasn't alive back then, and neither were you." I say to them. "It was our forefathers who did it, but, I just feel so bad about it" they say to me.
I think some people who make these statements really do have a cognizance that horrible atrocities were committed against Native People here in Indian Country. Some people actually try to rectify those wrongs, committed so long ago. Progress is incredibly slow, but, any movement forward is good movement.
My thoughts about this subject and the plight of the Mexican Indians linger constantly. They are further motivated after visiting Gary Farmer's website ( http://garydfarmer.net ) . Mr. Gary Farmer played, "Nobody", in the Johnny Depp feature, "Dead Man", a Jim Jarmusch movie. Not just a movie but an intensely riveting movie about one man's journey to the spirit world, guided by "Nobody" a Native person, who had made his own journey years before he met, William Blake (Depp).
Mr. Farmer, an Native activist, had a section in his website devoted to activism. Therein, was links to the Native Indians of Mexico, specifically, Oaxaca. The atrocities there are appalling. The Mexican government, authorizing the decimation of Native people, does any of this sound familiar?
Where are the people who feel sorry for the injustice now? Why is the world crying for dead Arabs, dead Africans, dead Indonesians, yet, not a single headline about the murdered Native People of Oaxaca?
Does no one hear the cries of the suffering there in Oaxaca, does anyone know where Oaxaca is located? Did you know that there are still Indians living in Mexico as well as South America, and North America? Did you know that the Brazilian rain forest is being cut down at such an alarming rate that the Native people who live there are also being displaced?
The Native People in Mexico and South America are standing alone with machetes and bows, against bulldozers and rifles. Alone, do you hear me? Could you imagine standing there in the mud in front of a bulldozer trying to protect your Mother, knowing that you are about to be run over by this giant machine? I think not.
You have access to a computer if you read this, you have pen and paper. Write to the Mexican consulate
READ THESE http://www.chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=137349
http://www.chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=137359
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Tired of feeling powerless, WRITE, NOW!!!!! Quit, being apathetic.
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