[HPforGrownups] Re: Off-Topic, but you asked, was: Peter (& Disney)

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 4886

Susan McGee wrote:

> 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,

Bear in mind that they were not passive victims, but did a damn lot of
horrible unspeakable things on their own side, too.

> and who are today still the victims of racism.

Racism, I'm not too sure. Really truly rotten policy, public apathy, and
lack of any popular standard-bearers, yea verily.

> The life expectancy
> of Native Americans in this country is well below that of non-natives.

I really, really dislike this usage. I'm a native American. I was born here.
My parents and grandparents, ad nauseam, were all native Americans. Don't
call me a non-native just because I'm a non-Native. Very few of any of the
"native" peoples of any locale of the world arrived there to find it
uninhabited, and moved in; the history of the planet is about the
displacement and replacement of peoples. How long does a people have to be
living and reproducing in a place, to be a "native" of that place?

Editors are detail-oriented. Sorry.

--Amanda