Saturday, March 31, 2007

I'm back

back for good.
Well probably..............

Politically correctly incorrect.

We used to call ‘Native Americans’ ‘Red Indians’, until we decided that the term ‘Red Indian’ was racist, I’m not sure why we did this but I guess we were right, after all what could be more racist than RE - naming one racial group after another one that they almost certainly have absolutely no migrational, or genetic link with? Well how about this, ‘me bucco’,
RE - name them after a racial group that not only do they have nothing to do with, but also is responsible for their complete and utter degradation; that is essentially what we have done with the term ‘Native American’ after all when the white Europeans came to their ‘New World’ i.e. the land that we currently call ‘America’ they raped, tortured, killed, made slaves of, and of course stole the land of the natives not to mention brought in new diseases that the native’s immune systems simply could not deal with, but I’ll think we’ll let that one slide.
Calling the Sioux and the Navajo and the many others ‘American’, native or otherwise is like calling a Jew a Nazi or an Armenian a Turk and in many ways you could say its even less justified.
Another reason why both of these terms are racist is that they imply that there is just one group native to America, when actually...............well I don’t know exactly how many there are but its quite a bit and what’s more they all have completely different cultures. Calling them all Native Americans is somewhat like calling every white guy in my neighborhood ‘Phillip’, not exactly cricket is it?, down right offensive some would call it, not exactly politically correct, is it? But then when you take a close look at it political correctness never is, so maybe it’s just not correct, maybe its just dumb.