Faith Cross   
      
      
      
   A white man and an elderly Native man became pretty good friends, so the white   
   guy decided to ask him: "What do you think about Indian mascots?" The Native   
   elder responded, "Here's what you've got to understand. When you look at black   
   people, you see    
   ghosts of all the slavery and the rapes and the hangings and the chains.   
    When you look at Jews, you see ghosts of all those bodies piled up in death   
   camps. And those ghosts keep you trying to do the right thing.   
   "But when you look at us you don't see the ghosts of the little babies with   
   their heads smashed in by rifle butts at the Big Hole, or the old folks dying   
   by the side of the trail on the way to Oklahoma while their families cried and   
   tried to make them    
   comfortable, or the dead mothers at Wounded Knee or the little kids at Sand   
   Creek who were shot for target practice. You don't see any ghosts at all.   
   "Instead you see casinos and drunks and junk cars and shacks. "Well, we see   
   those ghosts. And they make our hearts sad and they hurt our little children.   
   And when we try to say something, you tell us, 'Get over it. This is America.   
   Look at the American    
   dream.' But as long as you're calling us Redskins and doing tomahawk chops, we   
   can't look at the American dream, because those things remind us that we are   
   not real human beings to you. And when people aren't humans, you can turn them   
   into slaves or kill    
   six million of them or shoot them down with Hotchkiss guns and throw them into   
   mass graves at Wounded Knee.   
      
      
   "No, we're not looking at the American dream. And why should we? We still   
   haven't woken up from the American nightmare.   
      
   "In a World were we need to build on mutual respect we must first get rid of   
   Racism in Sports"   
      
   "If you know your ceremonies and your culture then you know the offense takes   
   place."   
      
   Floyd 'Redcrow' Westerman   
      
   (Well said Floyd...)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)