On Oct 15, 2011, at 1:34 PM, James Heartfield wrote:
> Joe C. posted: ‘This, in my opinion, is what we should be working toward.? Calling for our natural rights as human beings and as an indigenous people is what unifies us all.? To be accorded human rights is our rightful inheritance.?’
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> I think statehood is a clearer demand. What natural right? What are indigenous people? Are some humans indigenous and some not? ‘to be accorded’ – by whom?
Excellent questions. Statehood is a goal that can unite people as they fight for it. All those other things are kind of empty. High-sounding moral-exhortatory claims, but hollow at the core.
Doug