From: oldwifetale@yahoo.com   
      
   On Sunday, September 7, 2014 1:07:54 AM UTC-7, joshb wrote:   
   > Op 2014-09-05, oldwifetale schreef :   
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   > > Yeah, FB and Twitter have their benefits and their usefulness, but they'll   
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   > > never be as perfect as unmoderated usenet *was* for diversity of opinion    
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   > > and perspective.   
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   > > "just sayin'"   
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   > Yay for Usenet, the true People Parliament.   
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   > Sad that there is virtually no natives on Usenet. Nobody to really   
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   > talk to about what is interesting.    
      
      
   I agree with that sentiment.    
      
   A day or so ago I read an article about how Black and Hispanic populations in   
   the U.S. are under-represented in law enforcement jobs. The Asian population   
   might have been mentioned in a statistic, but there was really no significant   
   mention of Native    
   Americans. What i see in mainstream news, regarding native people, usually   
   involves sports mascots. I know there are other, more pressing, issues - but i   
   don't hear about them from media unless i actively pursue it. For instance, i   
   know there are    
   increasing problems with gangs on the rez, but... it hasn't been been worthy   
   of 'headlines' - even though it seems as if gang activity on reservations (and   
   other rural areas) is patterned after gang activity in urban areas.   
      
       
      
   > Reminds me: some Indian prophets   
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   > may have been right: at the end, the indians will be ignorant as   
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   > well, just as the whites. A long struggle would be needed. People   
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   > are running after their jollies, but they don't see the bigger picture   
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   > of greed & war, fundamental Imperial destabilization; industrial   
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   > evisceration, financial delapitation ;). Then when they finally see    
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   > it, it has already blown up in their face.   
      
      
   Generally, when people are too busy hating and destroying, there's not a lot   
   of energy left for loving and creating. It's an individual choice, and people   
   just have to decide for themselves which way they're going to go.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)