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December 2001
Indians must make reparations to African Americans? December 2, 2001 -
Al Sharpton says America owes reparations to African Americans:
"While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us."
Assuming he's right, would he support requiring African Americans to make reparations to American Indians for the racism we suffer at their hands? Not likely. Just the opposite, in fact. By utterly ignoring the injustice African Americans have helped perpetrate against Indians, while demanding reparations for Blacks, he lumps Indians in with all other Americans whom, he says, owe him and his.
What everybody knows but White Americans are not allowed to talk about is that other American minorities consider Blacks the most racist. Not all Blacks. But too many. Like most Americans, most African Americans are decent, fair-minded people. But rather than serving to reduce racism, Rev. Sharpton's views promote an attitude of arrogant victimization among African Americans which translates into racist acts against all Americans.
Rev. Sharpton does all African Americans a grave disservice by perpetuating this victim mentality. Were he truly interested in promoting the welfare of his people, he would focus on accentuating the many good things about African Americans, instead of whining about racist acts which, though still too prevalent, are now neither pervasive nor legal.
- NewsMax
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October 2001
White war, Indian ways! September 18, 2001 - Americans love dead Indians. Kevin Costner's movie, Dances With Wolves, was about Indians who are dead, and it was a big hit. But now, as then, many Americans still hate living Indians, and affluent non-Indians living within the Port Madison Reservation boundaries in Washington state, are trying to destroy the Suquamish Tribe.
According to Ron Allen, chairman of the nearby Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe and past president of the National Congress of American Indians, "They just don't want a bunch of poor Indians around their neighborhood. The irony of it is that they are encroaching on Indian homeland -- trying to drive Indians out of their own land."
Seattle, of course, is named after Chief Sealth, who was a Suquamish and Duwamish leader. In the continuing war against Indians, the Federal government has already reversed the decision made by the Clinton administration to acknowledge the Duwamish Tribe. Now, non-Indians are attacking the other half of the living legacy.
Ironically, efforts to eradicate Indian tribes have often increased the strength of tribal bonds. Like bin Laden's attack on America.
Bin Laden sought to fragment us with fear and terror. Instead, just as we predicted on the day of the September 11th attacks, Americans have come together to stand firm against this threat. But while the talking heads have ruminated endlessly over this phenomenon and the lesson it should teach to terrorists, closer to home the lesson is lost:
"The Suquamish Tribe wants to help impoverished members by building a low-income housing project on its reservation. But affluent, non-Indian neighbors along scenic Agate Passage don't like the idea. So they are trying to force the tribe out of existence by filing suit in U.S. District Court in Seattle."
This isn't the only attack on Indians in America. More lawsuits are being filed against tribes throughout the nation. But, just as the September 11th attacks brought the nation together, so these attacks will lead to greater cohesion within the Native American community. - Seattle PI
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September 2001
Robert Jamieson Jr. - Horror makes it too easy to hate: September 14, 2001 - When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, suddenly all Japanese Americans were suspect. Round 'em up, lock 'em up, it's easy to hate when you're horrified.
Whites do it to blacks, blacks do it to whites, it's not hard to point fingers at obvious differences, and lash out in rage. Just like many Americans are doing to Arab Americans in the wake of the terrible attacks on New York and the nation's capitol:
"Arab Americans must not be blamed for our recent tragedy; they are as culpable for this week's mayhem as innocent German Americans were for Hitler's rampage. One race or religion does not reflect the scattered evil of a renegade few. ... This week, Arab Americans wept. They lined up to donate blood. They cared. And when all of the casualties are known, Arab Americans likely will be among the dead."
"We have met the enemy, and they is (not) us." So let's stop acting like the enemy. - Seattle PI
Hate crimes in America: September 1, 2001 - According to the FBI, African Americans are about two times more likely to commit a racially motivated crime than whites, and black assaults on whites outnumber white assaults on blacks by a ratio of more than 7 to one:
"The Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that in 1999, there were about 657,008 black-on-white crimes of violence, as compared to some 91,051 of the white-on-black variety." - Front Page Magazine
African bullies want to loot and dishonor Americans: September 1, 2001 - For thousands of years, people in virtually every part of the world enslaved one another. In Africa, they still do.
Most of the Africans who came to America as slaves were sold into slavery by other Africans - either their own people, by members of neighboring tribes, or by marauding (African) slavers. In parts of Africa, blacks still enslave one another.
Western Europeans and Americans were among the first nations in modern times to outlaw slavery. In America, as a group, African Americans have never been reluctant to exploit American Indians, the "brotherhood of minorities" myth portrayed in movies notwithstanding. And there are still slaves in Africa.
Despite all these things, one of the big issues of the current U.N. conference on racism is the demand for America to make reparations for slavery to blacks. Not to African Americans (though we can be sure they would count that a victory, too), but to Africans in Africa.
"Reparations to Africans for centuries of slavery also remained a stumbling block. ... African and Caribbean states want a formal apology and some countries are pressing for financial reparations."
Excuse me, guys, but when were you planning on issuing a formal apology for the way Africans in the U.S. have exploited American Indians? As for money, your ancestors, who sold their brothers and sisters into slavery, already got paid. - Yahoo Daily News
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August 2001
Gene Callahan and William Anderson - An end to racial profiling: August-September 2001 - The police harass blacks. It happens a lot. Everyday. A good friend - he's black - once told me how one evening while driving home through an up-scale community east of Seattle, a local police car pulled in behind him, lights and siren on. He didn't stop until he was outside the city limits. When the agitated officer demanded to know why he didn't stop, he replied, "A black man stopped by the police in (that neighborhood)? You gotta be kidding." It's a story I've heard from more than one black friend. Racial profiling. It's a fact. Why? "Racism," the vultures of victimization lament. But more often than not, racism is clearly not the real answer. "While incidents of racial profiling are widely deplored today, there is little said about the actual root cause of the phenomenon." What, then? A war not of race, but of political policy. The war on drugs: "The sources include the difficulty in policing victimless crimes in general and the resulting need for intrusive police techniques; the greater relevancy of this difficulty given the intensification of the drug war since the 1980s; and the additional incentive that asset forfeiture laws give police forces to seize money and property from suspects." - Reason
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July 2001
Hypocrisy over the "N" word: July 19, 2001 - Those who criticize Jennifer Lopez for using the "N" word in her new single, "I'm Real," need to level the same degree of criticism against blacks who use the same word, or shut up. "The problem is that many of the blacks who rage at Lopez, and others who casually toss around racially loaded words, do not unleash the same fury on blacks who use the same words." Hypocrisy is as hypocrisy does. - Salon
CDC report says racial bias, but means gender bias: April 27, 2001 - According to a recent report issued by the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC), black employees have it bad compared to white employees. Titled Fatal Occupational Injuries - United States, 1980-1997, the report indicates that, "Although 85% of civilian workers who died were white, blacks had a higher fatality rate (5.6 per 100,000 workers) than whites (5.0 per 100,000 workers)." However, while the report is historically accurate, it is also out of date. According to the National Vital Statistics Reports, Volume 48, Number 11, Deaths: Final Data for 1998, Tables 24 and 25, the death rates due to fatal occupation injuries for men (both black and white) have been almost identical since 1993, ranging from 4.5-5.9 per 100,000. These tables also indicate death rates for women of both races have been nearly identical during that same period, ranging from 0.4-0.6 per 100,000. So, if the death rates raise any questions about work-place bigotry, those questions would not be about racial bias, but gender bias.
Courtland Milloy - A multitude of problems: June 6, 2001 - Black men face a multitude of problems, particularly in Washington, D.C., where the "life expectancy of a black male in the District is only 58." Poor education, AIDS, and a crippled culture only make matters worse. But one of the most telling factors is found right at home. According to George Starke, a former professional football player who runs the Excel Institute Automotive Program, "Not one student in my school has a dad at home." - Washington Post.
Charley Reese - The wrong flag: July 3, 2001 - Whenever one of the professional African American provocateurs runs out of substantial issues, which, for the past 20 years or so has been most of the time, they reach into their grab bag of time worn whines and pull out a bellyache about the Confederate battle flag. Kill it, burn it, shred forever that shameful symbol of American slavery. Just one problem, they've got the wrong flag. "The flag that did fly over many slave states, North and South, for seven decades was the federal flag, the good old Stars and Stripes. I wonder what these politically correct types are going to do when the American Indians tell them that they are offended by the Stars and Stripes, that to them it is a symbol of genocide." We already asked them about that, Charley. Rhetorical like. Others have, too. But if any answer, they never do it in a public. "I personally will shun such folks, because life is too short to spend it in the company of cowards." You got that right. - Orlando Sentinel.
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June 2001
State of Nebraska in contempt of Santee Sioux? June 22, 2001 - For several years leaders of the Santee Sioux have negotiated with state of Nebraska officials over the development of a tribal casino. As if states ought to have any say over federal reservations. They do. They shouldn't. That's the real issue. The legal issue is whether the tribe could operate gaming machines rather than pull-tabs. "A federal appeals court on Thursday found several officials of the Santee Sioux Tribe in contempt for operating their tiny casino without the approval of the state of Nebraska and in defiance of federal law." - Smoke Signals.
Protest non-Indians selling boos to Indians, go to jail: May 24, 2001 - The good people of Whiteclay, Nebraska, sell a lot of beer to residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, which lies just across the border in South Dakota. So a group of Indian men went to Whiteclay to protest. "Activists claim the beer sales exacerbate problems on the officially dry reservation and want the outlets shut down." The response? Nebraska State Patrol troopers arrested the protesters. In the state of Nebraska, it's okay to sell beer to Indians, but they won't let Indians operate a modern gaming establishment. - Omaha World-Herald.
Seattle tribe remains in limbo: June 18, 2001 - The Indian tribe of the man after whom Seattle is named remains in limbo thanks to a government long dedicated to the illegal eradication of Indians. "In the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott, 81 Indian leaders representing 15 tribes ceded Puget Sound to the United States. Chief Seattle was the first to make his mark on behalf of the Suquamish and Duwamish. The Suquamish got their own reservation; the Duwamish didn't." - Seattle Times.
Witch hunters close down Mama King: June 14, 2001 - Since 1988, Mama King has operated a highly praised day care facility. But then in October 2000, Leanne Mudge and one other parent accused the elderly black woman of smearing feces on children's faces as punishment, and the heavy hand of the government swept in. "Two days after the news broke, the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services temporarily suspended King's day-care license. Today, after seven months and a dizzying and ongoing array of injunctions and revocations and appeals, King's Day Care remains closed, and Delores King remains unemployed, prevented by court order from providing so much as 'supervision' for any child not related to her by blood or marriage." Just one problem: No credible evidence. The witch hunters score another victory. - Houston Press.
Salmon no match for Tacoma Power's billions: June 13, 2001 - Tacoma Power wants a dam, Tacoma Power gets a dam, salmon runs be damned. "A federal judge has dismissed a number of claims in a $5.8 billion lawsuit the Skokomish Indian Tribe filed in 1999 over Tacoma Power's handling of the Lake Cushman hydropower project on the Skokomish River." Tacoma Power (is the TP acronym accidental?) evidently makes a habit of using the licensing process (which ostensibly gives tribes some authority over how TP conducts its business on any given river) to stall the construction of promised fish ladders. They're doing it on other rivers to other tribes and other salmon. The Indian tribes aren't powerful enough to oppose this bully by themselves. But who else cares? - Olympian.
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May 2001
Whites and Asians clash in Oldham: May 27, 2001 - After years of suffering racial abuse, Asians in Oldham are striking back with a vengence, according to the Greater Manchester police. "A crowd of more than 500 mainly Asian youths were involved in the rioting in the central and Glodwick areas of the Lancashire town, which has suffered an upsurge of racial tension in recent weeks." - Sunday Times.
Quinault Indian Nation stops issuing fishing permits: May 19, 2001 - Concerned whites are catching blueback sockeye salmon that spawn in Lake Quinault, the Quinault Indian Nation closed the lake. "Quinaults were concerned that non - tribal people were fishing for blueback salmon, which can only be harvested by tribal members. She wasn't aware of any evidence to support the Quinaults' contention." - Aberdeen Daily World.
Jobs are the solution to black-on-black crime: May 12, 2001 - Black-on-black crime is up as more inner city blacks turn to the illegal drug industry to make a living. Rev. Aaron Greenlea, president of the Baptist Ministers Conference says the answer is jobs. "'If we could get to them by showing them they could make an honest living, hopefully this would head off some of the drug dealing. They won't make as much money (as selling drugs) but it will be a better way of life because they'll live longer." - Cincinnati Post.
Renewal, not gentrification, key to repairing race relations? May 12, 2001 - In the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, many see urban renewall as the key to reparing the the growing fissure between whites and blacks. According to Pat Clifford, director of the Drop Inn Center shelter for homeless people in Over-the-Rhine, "''Gentrification can be viewed as tenants being pushed out of their homes." - Cincinnati Post.
Man goes on ethnic killing rampage: May 10, 2001 - On April 28, 2000, Richard Baumhammers calmly drove through the suburbs of Pittsburgh looking for victims. "Baumhammers, who is white, shot his Jewish neighbor, two men from India, two Asian men, and a black man, stopping twice to vandalize synagogues. Prosecutors said he was trying to make a statement against nonwhite immigration." - Boston Globe.
The Mexicans are coming, the Mexicans are coming! May 10, 2001 - The Census Bureau reports that during the past decade, the number of Mexican-Americans increased by 53 percent, to 20.6 million. "The report did not address how much of the Hispanic population increase resulted from illegal immigration." - Boston Globe.
American children are more segregated: May 6, 2001 - As white parents flee integrated cities for predominantly white suburbs, fewer children are growing up in integrated neighborhoods. "But a countertrend is mounting in Seattle, Portland, Ore., and other metropolitan areas in the Pacific Northwest, where white and black youngsters live in increasingly integrated neighborhoods, researchers found." - New York Times.
Chinooks hold out hand to Quinaults: March 28, 2001 - Gary Johnson, Chairman of the Chinook Indian Tribe, appeals to the people of the Quinault Indian Nation. "The Chinook Indian Tribe respectfully requests your support in our 151-year battle for tribal recognition. ... Do not assume that the Chinook want what is yours. ... Together we need to know who the enemy is ... and it's not us." - Aberdeen Daily World.
Cathy Young - Racial Preferences and the Culture of Concealment: April 28, 2001 - Secrecy and evasiveness are the rule on in the debate over Affirmative Action. The University of Michigan denied using race-based criteria for evaluating applicants even though with "an SAT score of 930-1000 and a grade-point average of 3.2-3.3" whites and Asians were rejected while "blacks and Hispanics were accepted." They have replaced this with a point system that awards 20 points to applicants who are members of an "underrepresented racial/ethnic minority identification." And in the law school, the chances of a black applicant being admitted are "three to 50 times greater" than for an equally qualified white applicant. "In recent years, the legal and political battles over affirmative action have forced the issues out into the open, though the evasions continue and frank discussion of racial preferences remains difficult." - Salon.
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April 2001
Cecelie S. Berry - do blacks be victims? April 20, 2001 - Racist liberals are luring African Americans to embrace victimization as their lot in life and under-achievement as their only option. "It is part of the symbiosis of white and black cultures, in which the belief is asserted (by whites) and internalized and acted out (by blacks) that black suffering is 'authentic' and black success is 'selling out.' " - Salon.
Study finds North Carolina prosecutors discriminate in death penalty cases: April 20, 2001 - If you're a black charged with murdering a white in North Carolina during the 1990s, your chances of facing the death penalty are much higher according to Jack Boger, a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law. "In fact, he said, what seems to have occurred is not that prosecutors sought the death penalty more often for black defendants but that they were more willing to let defendants plead guilty in exchange for a lesser sentence if the victim was black." - New York Times.
William Raspberry - respected black columnists only human: April 16, 2001 - I remember reading William Raspberry back when I was a teen (a long time ago) and thinking he was really something. Well, turns out even Mr. Raspberry is human, subject to all the foibles thereof: "In other words, if they get it wrong, white people are in trouble. If they ask what's right, they're in worse trouble. Poor white people. And yet, you don't hear them complaining. Oh, maybe they register a small whimper about affirmative action taking their jobs and college seats, but for the most part they just plod along so blithely you'd think they even find some advantage in being white." Personally, were that directed at me I'd be inclined to read some condescension into it. But as an Indian who got beaten up almost every day of his youth by those poor white people, and then spit in the eye most of his adult life by Bill Raspberry's poor black people, I could be wrong. - Washington Post.
Quinault Nation claims entire reservation: 1975/1995 - The Quinault Nation's constitution, as adopted by the General Council and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, could be interpreted to claim jurisdiction over all lands within the Quinault reservation, including the majority of the reservation which is owned by individual members of the seven other tribes which jointly own the Quinault reservation. - Center for World Indigenous Studies.
Quinault Indian lobbying: 1998 data - In 1997 and 1998 the Quinault tribe paid $120,000 to Dorsey & Whitney, a far-flung law firm. - Open Secrets.
Benin slave rings: April 14, 2001 - Africans enslave hundreds of children. "Trafficking in children has assumed serious proportions in Benin, claiming several hundred victims each year who fall prey to organised rings. ... The children eventually end up working for exploitative farmers in Gabon, Cameroon, Nigeria and Ivory Coast." - Irish Times.
Chicago found guilty of "reverse" discrimination: April 14, 2001 - "Twenty-six white Chicago firefighters bypassed for promotions in favor of lower-scoring minorities must be elevated and awarded back pay, thanks to an arbitrator's ruling that accuses Mayor Daley of violating a pivotal contract guarantee tied to affirmative action." - Chicago Sun-Times.
Bureau of Indian Affairs official interferes in Tribal governance: April 14, 2001 - On October 6, 2000, Deputy chief of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Michael J. Anderson issued a statement on Bureau of Indian Affairs letterhead "that the bureau considered the tribal court to be without authority, even though that position apparently conflicted with existing policy." It is general BIA policy not to interfere in the internal tribal affairs. - Boston Globe.
Counting casualties of the Holocaust one paperclip at a time: April 12, 2001 - At Whitwell Middle School in Whitwell, Tennessee, students are collecting 6 million paper clips to represent the Jews killed in the Holocaust. Whitwell Principal Linda Hooper said, "We try to protect them here, but sooner or later we'll have to send them into a hard world. We want them to realize they can live in that world with tolerance and understanding, and have a richer life for it." - Boston Globe.
Are New York's Indian land deals invalid? April 12, 2001 - New York State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi ruled the governor does not have the power to approve deals with New Yorks' Indians "without the support of the state Legislature." "Mohawk spokeswoman Rowena General...warned that, if it is upheld, the state's Indian tribes will revisit land deals and other agreements made with New York's governors over the years." - New York Post.
Nicole Brodeur - Whites always making excuses for blacks? April 12, 2001 - While Brodeur continues making excuses, a black female lawyer had another view. She said, "People like you are governed by white guilt. Black kids grow up and learn to manipulate people like you, and never learn the consequences of their actions, and the rules." - Seattle Times.
Editorial - High estate tax racist? April 10, 2001 - Most of us view the death tax as something that hits the rich, but what about blacks, Asians and Hispanics who are the first among their family to succeed, but when the reaper comes have little to pass on to their families after Uncle Sam puts them out of business? "For example, if the owner dies and his investment portfolio is worth, say, barely $1 million, his heirs will not have to pay taxes on the first $675,000. However, Uncle Sam can tax the remainder at a whopping 39 percent. To a $1-million-a-year-family-run business, that probably means liquidating assets and may likely mean a going-out-of-business sign to boot." - Washington Times.
Quinaults appeal recognition of Chinook tribe: April 9, 2001 - The Quinault tribe filed an appeal with the Department of Interior's Board of Indian Appeals, protesting federal recognition of the Chinook tribe. In dispute is the Quinault's jurisdiction over allotments of land owned by individual Chinooks on the Quinault reservation. Gary Johnson, chairman of the Chinooks, responded, "We would like to find some middle ground or common ground." - More information about the history of the reservation. - Aberdeen Daily World.
Quinaults claim jurisdiction over other local tribes: In their official tribal brochure, the Quinault Nation claims local tribes are actually part of their nation. This may be one reason why they oppose federal recognition of these other tribes. - Quinault Indian Nation Website.
Quinault vice chairman avoids recall: November 10, 2000 - Following an incident of driving under the influence and reckless driving in 1998, and allegations of "abuses of power" for threatening to fire employees of the Quinault Beach Resort & Casino for not serving him alcohol during the resort's opening, Tribal vice chairman, David Martin faced and survived a recall vote. Joe Swift, the tribal member who filed the petition to recall, was disappointed. "To my immediate family, you say let's get these bad apples out of our government, but when it comes time to vote, you are nowhere to be found." - "a href=:"http://www.thedailyworld.com/daily/2000/Oct-19-Thu-2000/news/news3.html">More information - Aberdeen Daily World.
Quinaults oppose recognition of tribe that welcomed Lewis & Clark: January 4, 2001 - When the Department of Interior formally recognized the Chinook Tribe, the Quinaults immediately protested. In a prepared statement Quinault Chairman Pearl Capoeman-Baller said the Quinaults are "not aware of any evidence that would have warranted this sharp reversal." - Aberdeen Daily World.
Betty DeRamus - The lessons about race-relations America could learn from the South: April 5, 2001 - Of all the places in America, the South is most integrated. "It makes sense when you think about it. Blacks and whites always lived close together in the South, even during slavery. ... They didn't always like each other, but they never turned their faces away from each other either." - Detroit News.
Ellen Goodman - Decreasing diversity in America: April 5, 2001 - At the same time diversity is increasing in America, it is also decreasing as geographic ethnicities from abroad are transformed into a single bloc upon immigrating to America. "America is not a melting pot. It's a set of melding pots. We are defined by labels between our personal identity as an individual and our shared identity as Americans." - Boston Globe.
Race-conscious admissions unconstitutional: March 22, 2001 - Judge Bernard A. Freedman struck down the University of Michigan law school's 20-point boost for black and Hispanic students. According to Ward Connerly, of the American Civil Rights Institute in Sacramento, California., "Using race to achieve diversity is nonsense. Racial qualifications are odious. Equality is equality, but has nothing to do with the color of one's skin." - New York Post.
Quinault Indian construction workers protest tribal committee bias: March 22, 2001 - A group of Quinault Indians are protesting the failure of the tribal Business Committee to adhere to Tribal hiring laws. "Our jobs are being given away." - Aberdeen Daily World.
Quinault Tribal leaders acting without approval March 29, 2001 - "Tribal members were annoyed that tribal leaders were moving the (condominium project adjacent to the Quinault Beach Resort & Casino) forward without formal approval of the General Council." - Aberdeen Daily World.
Indian violence up? March 19, 2001 - "A new study by the Justice Department shows Indians were twice as likely to be victims of violent crime than other groups in America, but an official (Marie Hall) for the Quinault Indian Nation argued today that's beside the point." - Aberdeen Daily World.
Contractor files $1.18 million lien against Quinaults: March 20, 2001 - "An Indian - owned general contractor from Lacey filed a $1.18 million lien against the Quinault Indian Nation." - Aberdeen Daily World.
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March 2001
Don Wycliff - Reparations stunt puts real issues on back burner: March 30, 2001 - David Horowitz's "10 Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks--and Racist Too" is addle-brained and racist. "There is a finite and, I fear, rapidly diminishing reservoir of patience in this country for racial redress. That reservoir has never been as deep as we like to suppose. ... Even so, the reservoir has been drawn down dramatically. Reparations talk could drain it." - Chicago Tribune.
Erik Lacitis - who was Chief Seattle? March 29, 2001 - The son of a Suquamish father and Duwamish mother, Seattle believed it was important to make friends with the white settlers. A powerful man, he prevailed. "Seattle in his younger years was 6 feet tall, muscular with a formidable presence and a strong, powerful voice." He welcomed the settlers and helped them thrive. For this, the settlers who rose to prominence - Mercer, Maynard, Denny, and Yesler, among others - rewarded him with their contempt. - Seattle Times.
Tim Wise - Color Conscious: September/October 1998 - We stereotype most criminals as Black even though most crimes are commited by Whites. "Despite the fact that Blacks are only 14% of drug users, they represent 35% of possession arrests, 55% of possession convictions, and 74% of those sent to prison for possession. ... Only 17% of the attackers of whites in a given year are Black, while 75% are non-Hispanic whites. ... Even more significantly, the racialization of danger takes our eyes off the biggest threats to health and well being. White-collar crime costs the U.S. nearly $200 billion annually according to the Department of Justice; that's eleven times the money and property stolen in all thefts combined, let alone 'Black theft.'" - Fisk University Race Relations Institute.
Tim Wise - Blinded by the White: June 1999 - When white kids misbehave, it's largely ignored until it explodes into violence. But when black kids misbehave, authorities spring into action. "Once again, the racialization of deviance has allowed us to let down our guard to the greatest threats to our safety: not people of color (if we're white), but our own white children, white parents, white neighbors, white husbands, white lovers and white friends." - Fisk University Race Relations Institute.
Tim Wise: June 2000 - Just what exactly is "white privilege"? "The virtual invisibility that whiteness affords those of us who have it is like psychological money in the bank, the proceeds of which we cash in every day while others are in a state of perpetual overdraft." - Fisk University Race Relations Institute.
Racial disparities in U.S. prison populations are profound: March 25, 2001 - Almost two million Americans are in prison, and most of them are black: "Black males were incarcerated in record numbers - a total of 791,600 black men were in prison, a new high." This is indicative of extremely serious social problems which will inevitably end in backlash unless we abandon the Great Society programs which created this great divide and take immediate steps to realize Martin Luther King Jr.'s great vision. - Toronto Star.
Donna Britt: March 23, 2001 - Badness comes in many hues, but why does it take a white guy saying it before anybody will hear it? "(B)lack people who decry stereotyping are dismissed as anti-white bigots, while (Nashville-based writer Timothy Wise) is invited to give 60 lectures a year." - Washington Post.
Chinook not really a tribe? March 25, 2001 - "(T)he Globe has learned, on Jan. 3, (Bureau of Indian Affairs head Kevin Gover's) last day in office, he rejected findings by government researchers that the Chinook tribe of Washington state did not qualify for recognition ... Gover personally rewrote the staff's findings, inserting his own conclusions to affirm the tribe's authenticity while editing out years of work by government historians, anthropologists, and genealogists." Oh, puh-leez! My family and I know dozens of Chinook Indians. - Boston Globe.
The issues are no longer black and white: March 21, 2001 - In Maryland's Prince George county, racial tensions are rising between the Black majority and the Hispanic minority. African American residents complain the new arrivals are messy and have low standards. "Hispanics, meanwhile, are raising many of the same objections that African Americans once did, arguing that they are the victims of prejudice." - Washington Post.
Unbiased reporting elicits accusations of bias: March 15-21, 2001 - Reporting the violence committed by several Black youths (both male and female) elicited complaints of racism from the area-NAACP and others. "'I'll tell you, every fight I saw was instigated by small groups, of between three to eight, of young black males--that's a fact,' says (Seattle P-I reporter) Mike Urban." Conservative KVI talk radio Host John Carlson made a similar observation: "If you had had roving bands of white skinheads beating up African Americans, you would have had the police department shut the streets down at all costs." But the real issue isn't the race of the victims or assailants, but the attempts by Black leaders to hush it up. - Seattle Weekly.
Black bigotry a "sensitive" issue in Seattle: March 17, 2001 - Most of the violent perpetrators in Seattle's Fat Tuesday riots were black. At least 75 percent, according to Seatle police. And it's scaring officials: "Paul Benz, director of Lutheran Public Policy of Washington State, an advocacy group that deals with race-relations issues, cautioned that the community must tread carefully and thoughtfully when dealing with such sensitive matters." - Seattle P-I.
Zimbabwe's barbarity a blight on the Commonwealth: March 18, 2001 - President Robert Mugabe's brutality and disregard for democracy should get him expelled from the Commonwealth. His goons intimidate and kill his opposition. "What does it take to get kicked out of the club? Genocide?" - Sunday Times.
Racial profiling study raises serious questions: March 18, 2001 - "African-American drivers were pulled over and checked for arrest warrants at twice the rate of white drivers in more than 1,600 Louisville police traffic stops." - Kentucky Courier-Journal.
Jackson blasts Microsoft as he pulls out of discrimination case: March 14, 2001 - Microsoft is "a company with an institutional disdain for both the truth and the rules of law that lesser entities must respect," District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson said as he withdrew from the discrimination case. "I was presented with testimony from numerous 'senior management' officials of Microsoft. Much of it proved, time and again, to be inaccurate, misleading, evasive, or transparently false." - ZD Net.
Ethnic diversity grows, but not integration: March 14, 2001 - The U.S. is both more diverse and segregated than ever before, despite White efforts to integrate. "Americans continue to live by and large among people who look much like themselves." - Christian Science Monitor.
Robert L. Jamieson Jr.: I know you've been busy beating up people and groping women and stealing wallets. But could you take a moment from your hectic schedule to become re-acquainted with someone? She has no answers for why you fist-throwers singled her out. Was it because her skin is white and yours is not? Or because you have issues with women? - Seattle P-I.
NAACP opposes African slave trade: March 8, 2001 - NAACP leader Kweisi Mfume urged Congress to impose sanctions to protest slavery in Sudan. - Nando Times.
Thomas J. Bray: March 8, 2001 - Too many minorities flunk tests, like the Scholastic Assessment Test, or SAT, making it impossible for educational institutions to meet their affirmative action goals. Rather than find a way to bring the K-12 system up to snuff, folks like University of California President Richard Atkinson have simply decided they must lower their standards. - Jewish World Review.
Zionism or racism? March 8, 2001 - A decade after the United Nations repealed what was arguably its most troublesome resolution -- the 1975 equation of Zionism with racism -- Arab and Muslim countries are threatening to put it back on the UN agenda. - Globe and Mail.
Robert L. Jamieson Jr.: On riots, race and reality: Did the media unfairly capture images of black men, creating the impression they were more violent? "We all bleed the same red." - Seattle P-I.
George F. Will: Affirmative action originally concerned employment, not college admissions. It was a remedial -- and hence presumably temporary -- measure of restitution for injustice done to blacks by history. Without serious national debate or congressional guidance, affirmative action has been broadened to include various other government-favored minorities, and increasingly it benefits immigrants and their children -- people who came to the United States voluntarily, not in bondage. - Washington Post.
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February 2001
William Raspberry: The issues that might have constituted a black agenda have been subsumed under such broader issues as health care, criminal justice and public education. What remains is affirmative action, racial profiling and the disparate sentencing of users of crack and powder cocaine. - Washington Post.
Black criminals do a lot of time: Blacks make up less than 4 percent of the Washington state's population but account for 37 percent of the felons sentenced under the law. The result: More than half the King County felons locked up forever under Washington's 7-year-old "Three Strikes, You're Out" law are black - Seattle P-I.
Rosa Parks: Think you know her story? Think again. - Christian Science Monitor.
It's your money: In the 1996-97 fiscal year California tax-payers paid $83.7 million on prenatal care for about 70,000 illegal alien women - Seattle P-I.
Tulalips reacquire 900 acres of former reservation land - Seattle P-I.
The more we give, the more they want: After decades of welfare, affirmative action, frivolous race-discrimination suits and Jesse-Jackson-style corporate blackmail schemes, a lot of Americans are beginning to grasp that "reparations" - in all their various forms - are nothing but an elaborate con game - News Max.
Federal workers destroy Indian Trust Account documents: We're learning of documents being destroyed every day - Denver Post.
Silent no longer: What began as a crusade for equal rights under the law has soured into a big-money quest to impose racial preferences. A movement that once united Americans of every class and color has turned into an agent of segregationism, race-baiting and political intrigue. What arose as a populist cause championed by ordinary citizens has degenerated into cults of personality backed by corporate America and shielded from scrutiny by a cadre of enforcers and intimidators. "We Shall Overcome" has given way to "Show me the money!" - Jewish World Review.
Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe wants to airbrush out six other tribes - Jewish World Review.
Celebrate the triumph of ordinary black Americans - Seattle Times.
Race gene does not exist: Billions of pieces of genetic code sequenced thus far are notable for what they don't appear to contain: a genetic test to tell one race of people from another - Seattle Times.
John McWhorter: Racism is an inconvenience rather than an obstacle; blacks who are part of a growing middle class tend to exaggerate their oppression - San Francisco Chronicle.
Maureen, like me: Police harassment a rude rite of passage for black men - Toronto Star.
From Civil Rights to Snivel Rights: Jesse Jackson used Dr. King's death to launch his own career with a colossal lie - Jewish World Review.
Gimme Some! Thirty years of racial spoils are not enough for greedy black leaders drooling over untapped billions in white guilt - Boston Globe.
Walter Williams: Blacks as well as whites live on land taken, sometimes brutally, from Indians. Do we blacks owe Indians anything? - World Net Daily.
Charley Reese: If you criticize affirmative action or attempt to defend the South's history against slanders, you will be called a racist - Orlando Sentinel.
Walter Williams: Blacks have benefited from the fact of slavery, because we have far greater freedom and far higher incomes than we could ever find in Africa - Boston Globe.
Omnibus Indian Advancement Act: Ten acres near Oakland, CA, put into trust - Indianz.
Kevin Gover: Former head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs comes under fire for representing recognized tribes - Indianz.
David Duke: Building bridges to right-wing nationalists in the new Russia - Philadelphia Inquirer.
John Leo: The Democrats are intent on racializing every issue - Jewish World Review.
Heritage lost: Revisiting the state-sponsored child abductions of a bygone era - The Independent.
Who says we're extinct? Ancient culture of Cuba's Taino Indians thriving - Indian Country.
Anti-whaling activists favor breaking Indian treaty...again: Indians ought to shut up and do as they're told? - King 5 TV.
No justice for "American Mandela": Clinton message to Peltier: rot in jail, Indian scum - Cincinnati Post.
Give it back! Churches support Pueblo's land claim - Indianz.
To be a good man: Seven years sober, James "Potts" Hill leads La Posta band into 21st Century - Union-Tribune.
Devastating human crisis in Canada: First Nations peoples endure economic and social disparities that are shocking - Globe and Mail.
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January 2001
Turning racism on its head: Senegal's president, Abdoulaye Wade, says racism against Africans in places such as Europe is "marginal" when compared to ethnic and fratricidal conflicts within Africa - The Guardian.
Rich nations should pay for slavery: Descendants of slaves deserve apology, UN panels propose - National Post.
Peltier March & Rally - Seattle Independent Media.
Race in America: Orwell, With Lots More Consumer Goods - Fred on Everything.
Whore no more: Idaho legislature may eliminate epithet from all place names - Spokesman Review.
The Democratic inquisition: Democrats set out to tar and feather Bush's Cabinet nominees as racists, overlooking their own racial peccadilloes - Salon.
Jesse Jackson: Karin Stanford affair uncovers a deeper issue: Jackson was selling out - New York Post.
Assassin of Medgar Evers Dies - Arizona Republic.
Indian gambling-tax case accepted by high court - Arizona Republic.
Federal decision a relief to tribe - Seattle Times.
After decades, Duwamish tribe wins federal recognition - Seattle P-I.
Tough New Signs of Black Distrust: Bush's unpopularity with African Americans is an Engine of Protest - International Herald Tribune.
Unseemly Alliances: George W. Bush is a nice guy, right? A uniter, not a divider. So why does he keep such bad company? - New York Times.
King's speech resonates nearly 40 years later - Orlando Sentinel.
If King Were Here: Our situation demands not just organized action but also honest and accurate analysis. King, who understood that one without the other is useless, was a master of both - Washington Post.
Tony Brown recalls King's crusade - Chicago Sun-Times.
King's Legacy: The gift of diversity - Seattle Times.
Violence on Pine Ridge in 1975 looks a lot different through Indian eyes: With lack of evidence, court today could not convict Leonard Peltier in FBI agents' deaths - The News Tribune.
Tangle of rules await Norton, new BIA - Indian Country.
Roadless forest plan draws fire - Indian Country.
Human rights education strengthens sovereignty - Indian Country.
Put a Close to This Sad Chapter - LA Times.
Paige nomination troubles mascot opponents - Indianz.com.
First Native American Bank Launched - Yahoo Daily News.
The death of scientific racism - The Shadow.
Grandmother's racism made Kingsley a star - Sunday Times.
David Porter: Has King's message been lost? - Orlando Sentinel.
Toast to a sovereign new millennium - Indian Country.
New plaintiffs join Microsoft discrimination suit - C|Net News.
Winnebago Tribe expands holdings - Indianz.Com.
Chinook tribe wins struggle for federal recognition - Oregonian.
Indian tribes should use every resource at their disposal to approach Republican lawmakers - Indian Country.
President-elect George W. Bush's names former Colorado Attorney General Gale Norton as interior secretary - Las Vegas Sun.
Clinton signs bill aimed at helping Indian communities - St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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