🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3o88r1$4a3@nntp.interaccess.com>, echao@flowbee.interaccess.com (Eisen Chao) writes:
 > Cats13 (edconect@river.it.gvsu.edu) wrote:
 > 
 > :  I had very mixed feelings when I read this announcement. There was not one 
 > : mention of the First People in the "celebration" activities, save for the 
 > : last paragraph. 
 > 
 > : I am of mixed heritage (Chippewa and European ancestery), so these types 
 > : of ceremonies always give me pause. I would hope that in addition to 
 > : celebrating the landing of the Mayflower, participants will think long 
 > : and hard about the thousands upon thousands of Native Americans that were 
 > : killed, persecuted and displaced by the Europeans. I hope that you would 
 > : also celebrate the contributions to the USA that Native Americans have made. 
 > 
 > : I love the USA, but to ignore this shameful part of our history and the 
 > : continuing struggles of Native people diminishes us all.
 > 
 >   Diane, 
 > 
 >   You Native Americans just might have the last laff on this tragic
 >   affair. Maybe a hundred years from now, there will be celebrations
 >   by Cuban/Asian/Mexican descended Americans (or whatever) in honor
 >   of their ancestors first arriving in America, and the descendants
 >   of the Pilgrims will be mourning the loss of "their" ancestral
 >   lands ......

Go tell that to the militias ...