09-14-2015, 12:44 PM
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Originally posted by Opihikaobob
quote:Care to explain yourself?
Originally posted by Punatic007
Another racist topic, again and again.
Bob, feel free to ask me any questions. Right off the bat I can tell you this type of topic would be better suited for a culture preservation group, not Punaweb. Whenever you focus on one particular race/culture you create a mentality of us and them. It's not healthy, we are much more than that. The Big Island deserves more too, we deserve to live in an integrated non racial environment of equality.
I grew up with MLK(Martin Luther King Jr.) on the tube at night, my parents loved him. His dream was that we would all walk side by side some day. The only way to get there is to let go of us/them mental constructs, by focusing on the similarities of all people and disregarding racial prejudices or sterotypes.
Romanticizing native cultures seems to wind up with white people are deemed bad and natives are victims mentality. None of us lived then so it's really a negative hateful and revengeful waste of time.
Folks want to preserve their cultural heritage, whatever, do it in the proper place not in a group of mixed culture folk. I honestly can't relate to this topic, it seems like a manipulation to me. Indians were all over the board, from very peaceful to violent predatory tribe.
Lots of folk get adopted in this world, with no idea of who are their genetic ancestors. They seem to do just fine and get to sidestep the whole racial/cultural delineation game.
What matters is what you do in the present, do you do the best you can in life based on the golden rule without exception? Or do racial/cultural constraints need to be in place for you?