Hello Roger,
So nice to see you here, I do hope you come back.
I would like to share with you about something that has happened in the last several days. I wrote a note to this person about the Native American and the black people and how I thought the Native Americans were more abused than the black. Here is his response:
I have been considering the response to the subject of Black Americans and the Indian issue. Frankly the same case could be made for women's rights which I think has an even longer history of disparity.....
One of the problems in the resolution of these matters is that first modern society, in particular the "white" peoples who seem to take delight in accepting responsibility for issue they had no control over, and as a culture the handed down responsibility has hindered the repair of the racial separation......
In order to understand the issue one must be able to exchange the modern world for a much earlier time......
The Indians were occupants of this continent, no one "owns" the land, our Great Father does..... They were as a rule nomadic souls who needed a great expanse of land because they reaped the land of its benefits and as they used them up they traveled to other parts of the land, they also were savage to one another in that they did not co-exist, they pillaged, raped and robed each other, especially the weaker of tribes......just because they did not have a word for steal, lie, or cheat does not mean they did not do those things. Of course there are exceptions to this general rule, as with all rules. When the Europeans came they did not agree to co-exist, they wanted to remain nomadic, but in time the Land could not support the increase in population, thus the mistrust of each side. The scared the cultivators which always leads to violence and persecution. It is wrong to distroy a people, but just because they for the most part insisted upon separation it cannot be proper to accept ALL the blame by one people of the tragedies......
There is much more to expalin and one note does not do it justice so I will await your response before going forward except to say.......in order to help heal others we must first heal our self, we then become wiser in the way to repair all our people, for we are all one........
And this: Please excuse the typos as I have been working long hours with little sleep......
I want to comment upon my general theme....and that is the coming time..... We must first let go of he glamour of self persecution for the wrongs of the world, for they are no wrongs there is only the way of destiny...everything is s it should be, the past is nothing but a way to guide our footsteps..... when we remove the gratification and superiority of the "blamed ones" we find that we can realize that our guilt is but a way to continue the persecution of others by being "superior to them".......think about it...
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