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Old 08-04-2015, 12:12 PM
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With the greatest of respect, should you be bringing race into this?
A member of another indigenous faith requested a broader embracing sub-forum. This was granted.
It was then altered again because Native Americans wanted their own sub-forum.
Everyone has what they asked for. Race never came into it.
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Old 08-04-2015, 09:46 PM
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Maybe we should let this lie now and get back to actinly posting on here..
Let us continue with 'true hearts, straight eye and clean hands'..
For We are all related....
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Old 08-04-2015, 10:10 PM
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Well said.
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Old 09-04-2015, 09:27 AM
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With the greatest of respect, should you be bringing race into this?
A member of another indigenous faith requested a broader embracing sub-forum. This was granted.
It was then altered again because Native Americans wanted their own sub-forum.
Everyone has what they asked for. Race never came into it.

I said culture.
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Old 09-04-2015, 11:47 AM
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That's probably a way choosing to refuse to acknowledge unconscious complicity in oppression ...

... oppression is not the conceptual idea of the privileged mind; it's the lived experience of minorities who are 'not white'.

Something obviously lost in translation.
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If you set out each day to do all the goodness and kindness that you can, and to do no harm to man or beast, then you are walking the highest path.
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Old 09-04-2015, 01:19 PM
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Something obviously lost in translation.

It will be lost to persons of the dominant culture because the dominant culture invented race. They did so by writing a huge discourse on the physical attributes of 'other' peoples and their intellectual and moral capacity. If you are familiar with Said, he used the term 'orientalism' to describe how Western cultures described races in order to define themselves as superior in opposition to the inferior races of the East. This concocted human taxonomy was used to justify eurocentric colonisation of the world and the subjugation of indigenous populations... A person of this fabricated privilege would deny their own racism, but racism isn't only intentional acts of prejudice, it's a society that systematically and institutionally works to privilege euro-centricity to the disadvantage of ethic minorities. As white people (the privileged) we're immersed in it, and find it difficult to step back and view it objectively, but for any ethnic minority, the oppression is faced in a multitude of ways day in and day out. It's really invisible to whites because it isn't perpetrated externally to them; it operates through their cultural normalcy and is perpetuated by their normal everyday behaviour. The double bind here is, if you deny this to be the case, that only proves your denial, but I'm pretty sure that colonised indigenous people, or African Americans, will know what I'm saying.
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Old 09-04-2015, 03:20 PM
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With the greatest of respect, should you be bringing race into this?
A member of another indigenous faith requested a broader embracing sub-forum. This was granted.
It was then altered again because Native Americans wanted their own sub-forum.
Everyone has what they asked for. Race never came into it.

As above....

Where are you going with this?
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If you set out each day to do all the goodness and kindness that you can, and to do no harm to man or beast, then you are walking the highest path.
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