Off-Topic, but you asked, was: Peter (& Disney)

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 4860

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> Susan McGee wrote:
> 
> > We apologize for existing, these days.
> > >
> >
> > Who is we in this sentence Amanda?
> 
> Any native of America not of Native American descent.
> 
> > Civilizing the wilderness as in giving native americans blankets
> > infected with smallpox in order to get rid of them?
> >
> > Very civilized.
> 
> See, that's what I mean. Some decades ago, when the history of the 
frontier
> was presented, it focused mainly on the positive aspects. Today, it 
focuses
> mainly on the negative. We have yet to find a balance. This is like 
the wolf
> debate, with the pro-wolf people saying no human has been killed by 
wolves,
> etc., and the anti-wolf people saying they kill domestic animals en 
masse,
> etc. Neither side is entirely correct, but neither is entirely
> incorrect--they build emotional cases from selective evidence, to 
sway their
> audience. A grey matter should not be presented as either white or 
black. My
> comments were attempting to mark that in years past, it was white, 
now it
> seems to be black, and we have yet to achieve grey.
> 
> --Amanda


I would suggest that we used to view American history from the 
viewpoint of the conquerors; now some of us view it from the
standpoint of those who were the victims of genocidal warfare, and
who are today still the victims of racism. The life expectancy
of Native Americans in this country is well below that of non-natives.

Susan