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I was about to say the same thing last night about pots calling kettles black. I’ve seen many a flame on many a board where people who were posturing that they were”more Indian than thou” were roasting what they proclaimed to be ‘wannabes’ over the coals.
In every case, when enough details were revealed, every one of those accusers turned out to be an imposter in one way or another. One guy had MAYBE an Indian grandmother, though she was not on anybody’s rolls. He grew up in a white suburb and got into Indians as a Boy Scout. Later he married an enrolled Indian lady, learned a huge amount about the culture he claimed he was from, and passed himself off as a leader.
Another time there was a lady who ran a popular forum. She liked sitting in this little fortress she’d made of it, taking shots at anybody she liked, lambasting them as wannabes. Later everybody found out she was not connected to any other tribal community, recognized or not, and her family album was filled with generation after generation of white looking people. Whatever ancestry she had was buried REAL deep, which would have been fine if she’d been honest about it and treated others appropriately.
My instincts are, when somebody’s on the attack in this way they’re hiding something. It’s like the eastern and southern european immigrant-descended families I grew up around. They ‘passed’ for regular white Americans by telling a lot of racist jokes and being the most vocal bigots around. That’s what all this smacks of for me, and why I won’t have it here.
Originally posted by Ed Yancey
Let us commit ourselves to telling the real story and helping any seeker to find their heritage.
I don’t think anyone has a problem with that! Personally it is those that tell a false story who anger me!
No where did I ever accuse you of telling a false story, I don’t know you.
Why did you take offense to that statement?
I think we’re all a little battle fatigued at this point. Too many people crashing in and insulting us. I haven’t seen you to say anything offensive, Robco, but we’ve been yelled at so much this week, nerves are frayed.
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