Dear Clara:

I would hope you gonna root for whomever is being treated unjustly.  
The alternative is mere tribalism, the source and justification for 
much of the world's injustice in the first place.

--Jurretta Heckscher

On Mar 3, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Clara Callahan wrote:
>

> We just finished a couple of weeks of conversation about what those 
> whites did to those poor Indians and what those whites did to those 
> poor blacks.  Now the conversation has turned to what those Indians 
> are doing to those poor whites and blacks.  So far on this board no 
> one is championing either "minority" which, considering the past two 
> weeks' conversation, I find quite interesting.  What does one do when 
> one "minority" goes up against another "minority"?  Who you gonna root 
> for, the descendents of slaves, the descendents of whites who married 
> Indians, or the descendents of Indians?
>  This oughtta be good.
>

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