Dear Clara:

I meant the term figuratively, in the sense of paramount loyalty or 
devotion to a particular group (usually one's own) regardless of the 
merits of its conduct.

--Jurretta
(signing off the list for a few days to catch the spring migration on 
the Outer Banks)

On Mar 3, 2007, at 2:27 PM, Clara Callahan wrote:
>
>   I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "mere" tribalism.  We 
> are, after all, talking about a tribe here.  Are you saying that 
> Indian tribes are free to act tribally until they offend someone's 
> sensibilities, at which point "tribalism" becomes a yucky thing they 
> shouldn't be allowed to continue?
>
> Jurretta Heckscher <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>   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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