I love this group !! You folks are great !! Lois In a message dated 10/2/2009 12:01:50 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, mdud...@king-cart.com writes:
zoe w wrote: > I am so sorry you had to experience this. In my observations across > the country anywhere you go in Tennessee seems to be this way. > Please don't judge the rest of our beautiful country by this > yardstick. My apologies to any Tennesseeans here who do not fit > this pattern, this was my observation based on a cross country bus > tour a couple years ago. I simply could not believe how different > things are in that state. I am Tennessean and definitely do not feel that way. In fact I research material from a number of different tribes, primarily Hopi and Mayan, due to their rich heritage and "stories". I am very interested in shamanism of any tribe. I have even attended dancing and drumming ceremonies, and tried to go to a sweat lodge, but my wife objected. The energies are wonderful. > There will always be individuals who harbor resentment and > animosity, but mostly they will keep it to themselves these days. > We can perhaps have some control over how people act in public, but > we cannot govern what they think. It would be wonderful if there > were some magic pill or elixir that would make this all go away. > I have at one time or another lived in just about every area in > this land except for the great Northwest. In most of these areas > great progress has been made not only towards blacks and indians > but other minorities as well. Even so , one will always encounter > certain individuals who carry on the old hateful ways. Perhaps in > another 500 yrs or so......... Its really seems kind of > ridiculous these days when most of us are a conglomeration of > many many cultures. It is time to show not tolerance, but > acceptance and understanding. You may find with the changes coming, that will be changed by 2013. I sure hope so. Marshall > My 2 cents worth. > > zoe > > Evans, Antonio F. wrote: >> Greetings all, my heritage includes Blackfoot Native Americans from >> a reservation at one point in South Carolina, Barbados descendants >> after slavery (Maternal side) and Colombian Natives, Panamanian >> Natives and Jamaican descendants from South America (Paternal side), >> I pass for a small deep brown skin African American male. I was just >> in Chattanooga Tennessee and the hate I felt from Caucasian men >> young, middle age and elderly was beyond belief in 2009. You could >> just feel hate in their stares and blocking our car from the gas >> pump. A young Caucasian male would not allow my friend, who is half >> Caucasian and African American, he could pass for a 6'2 moroccon >> Arab. We needed to fuel the car to head back to Washington DC, after >> visiting his Caucasian mother who works in the Alexian retirement >> Center in the mountains of Chattanooga, such a beautiful place with >> hatefulness all around, did I miss something or should this still be >> expected? Pardon my description just painting a mental picture for >> you all, I wish CS mixed with DMSO could harmonize this issue with >> some of the American family >> >> A. Evans/ Nanya Nufushu EL >> >>
