I am so sorry to have to add one more comment to this thread but I am
afraid that I am being misquoted. The quotation below IS NOT MINE though
it appears that way by incomplete quoting to someone who didn't get my
original post!
Again, it came from Sherman Alexie a Coeur d'Alen Indian who wrote the
screenplay for 'Smoke Signals', the first movie to be written, directed
and acted entirely by Native Americans. It becomes very clear if you
listen to Alexie how EXACTLY Native Americans feel about these matters.
Again I was only providing the quote and a link to Alexie's site so those
who care to might learn more about it.
http://www.fallsapart.com/index.html
That's it. No more on this issue from me!
I love mod_perl! (that's to qualifiy the msg for the list :)
bakki
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 23:35:40 -0600
"Ken Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Farber (EED)) wrote:
> >Bakki Kudva wrote:
> >> Just look at the sports teams. You couldn't have a team called the
> >> Washington Kikes or the Washington Micks. But yet you can have the
> >> Washington Redskins and this Indian with a big nose and big lips
> running
> >> around. How would you feel if it was the Washington Rabbis and you
> had a
> >> guy with braids running around throwing bagels?
> >
> >Hey, that would be very funny! And I'm jewish.
>
> It sounds like kind of a funny idea in theory, perhaps for a Saturday
> Night Live skit, but how horrible it would be if this were actually
> carried out with a real team and a real city.
>
> >
> >Guys, relax - I don't believe, that using feathers and/or Apache
> >is offending anyone, esp. because it's a nice piece of software.
>
> That may be right, but I live in a community with a lot of Native
> Americans, I have a (pretty small) bit of Cherokee heritage myself, and
> there's no way in hell I'm going to wear, in public, a shirt that uses
> stereotypical Indian symbols to promote something as far removed as web
> server software. It would feel like an affront on my chest.
>
> Anyway, it seems the shirt isn't going toward this idea, so in that
> sense the point is moot, but some of the discussion has really been
> rubbing me the wrong way. I don't think it's proper for one person to
> dictate the situations in which another person is supposed to take
> offense, and the situations in which he/she shouldn't. That's not how
> emotions work.
>
>
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