[lbo-talk] Thanksgiving plows on ignoring ongoing genocide

[boddi satva]

Black Mesa may be an unconscionable rip-off of the Hopi and Navajo
people, but it's hard for me to equate it with "genocide" given what
is going on in other parts of the world. We have to make reparations
to and reconciliation with native people but I don't think
Thanksgiving is what stands in the way of that process.

On 11/25/05, peacenow at theofficenet.com <peacenow at theofficenet.com> wrote:
> Yes,  americans of all colors do the Thanksgiving thing.  Even the Alcatraz
> bunch does after a cold morning on the Rock.  But the state of mourning i feel
> when with my resister Indigenous friends and family always is an ache my heart
> as the genocide lives on.  What continues to haunt my soul daily is the lack of
> integration of Indigenous struggles in the radar screen of the left, especially
> the lofty and privileged left. A bit of Leonard Pelteir here, a bit of Shoshone
> struggle there, but who gives a crap that it is never truly STOPPED!  I do
> believe that until americans of conscience stand to the death to end genocide
> here, we will fail miserably in our efforts to stop it elsewhere.  Hypocrisy
> continues even as supporters pass out foood to the Dineh at Big Mountain/Black
> Mesa refusing to be relocated.  I wonder at the extreme voicelessness Indigenous
> people continue to suffer, yet never give up...  Truly commendable.
>
> the ghost in the flour bin o
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