tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post8919080913162487942..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: Gover summarizes Native stereotypesRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-67698012186438990732011-06-01T22:35:25.050-07:002011-06-01T22:35:25.050-07:00Hundreds of thousands of Native stereotypes, inclu...Hundreds of thousands of Native stereotypes, including mascots, are prime contributors to the poor self-image and self-esteem of many Indians. These psychological factors, in turn, are intimately connected to the Indians' state of physical and mental well-being.<br /><br />The same is true of blacks and other minorities. Researchers have documented that minorities have worse health <i>because of</i> society's prejudice against them.<br /><br />So mascots and other forms of racist stereotyping aren't a separate issue from Native health problems. They're one of the sources of these problems.<br /><br />For more on the subject, see <a href="http://www.bluecorncomics.com/stharm.htm" rel="nofollow">The Harm of Native Stereotyping: Facts and Evidence</a>.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-87876159509595208052011-05-25T21:26:27.824-07:002011-05-25T21:26:27.824-07:00If most indians lived free of junk-food and other ...If most indians lived free of junk-food and other addictive b.s. than I'd bet dollars to donuts that nobody would even care about mascots or what the white-world thinks of us because we would be too busy hunting and looking good being fit to give a crap.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-14930021726864872372011-05-25T21:17:20.904-07:002011-05-25T21:17:20.904-07:00Alcoholism has everything to do with addiction or ...Alcoholism has everything to do with addiction or bingin. Wheat uses the same opioid receptors as alcohol and morphine. New science understands that this is where cravings come from. http://foodaddictioninstitute.org/Research/Physical_Craving_And_Food_Addiction_Page2.html<br /><br />Also, nearsightedness does have something to do with sugar intake. One of the side effects of diabetes is nearsightedness or myopia. <br /><br />Diets high in refined starches such as breads and cereals increase insulin levels. This affects the development of the eyeball, making it abnormally long and causing short-sightedness, suggests a team led by Loren Cordain, an evolutionary biologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. http://health.ezinemark.com/a/nearsightedness-and-farsightedness/diabetes-2_795/<br /><br />Junk science is exactly what we are up against.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06756166039980699422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-91890905737000733542011-05-25T15:30:33.256-07:002011-05-25T15:30:33.256-07:00There's a lot of junk science there. Astigmati...There's a lot of junk science there. Astigmatism (nearsightedness) sorry is not caused by diet. And there's also a tip of the hat to the anti-sugar maniacs.<br /><br />And alcoholism has nothing to do with people liking to eat bread.dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-39006449793231409332011-05-25T06:44:59.900-07:002011-05-25T06:44:59.900-07:00I agree "Anon" about our diets and nativ...I agree "Anon" about our diets and native health issues, but those issues blanket the complete western hemispheres culture of unhealthy intake of junk foods and alcohol. All Americans could use a crash course on diet and health.<br /><br />You cannot downplay the mascot issue as a menial or trivial thing when this form of racism is institutionalized into the judicial system, the educational institutions, religious and policitical organizations that equate human beings with dead symbolism and myths that not only offend the Indian community, but remain a blank and ignorant invention of perceived privileges, rights and opportuntites that do not really exists.<br /><br />The mascot issue gives false identity on both sides of the issue and keeps racism alive. Racism is acted out through crimes like the current case in Famington, New Mexico where three white boys shaved a mentally ill Navajo mans head, carving a swastika on his head and putting cigarette burns on his body.<br /><br />It is to be taken as a joke, says the perpetrators.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-35523012481598376962011-05-24T05:01:27.753-07:002011-05-24T05:01:27.753-07:00We're getting fired up over a mascot when our ...We're getting fired up over a mascot when our people have real problems with addiction; namely food addiction.<br /><br /> We are still the same Indians who prided themselves for living off the land and hunting buffalo. We are still the people of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse,Black Elk, and Leonard Peltier. <br /><br />Many things have changed. Yes, we can compete academically to "expand our horizons" and become lawyers and physicians. However there is still this fundamental problem that will never be corrected and that is our bodies rejection to a westernized diet. <br /><br />Our bodies can't simply evolve in the span of 100 years to accomodate processed foods and salt, sugar, and glutin ladin foods! That is why we have such problems as diabetes, depression, adhd, nearsightedness, fibromylgia, alcholism, rheumatoid arthritis, and many others. <br /><br />These diseases are the direct result of a poor neolithic diet. That is a diet heavy on grains and sugar. Two things that our bodies are not accustomed to. So when I see the depiction of fighting Sioux it is a memorial of what we once were and also what we should still be. It does not bother me as much as the illnesses that plague our people! <br /><br />We need to go back to the hunter-gatherer diet and lifestyle we once thrived on and be the Fighting Sioux that they want to joke and make fun of. Our enemies would rather see us sick and worried about non issues than to stand up and fight against those who wish to destroy us with these chemicals of mass destruction. <br /><br />Food Addiction is a serious epidemic! It can also be cured with a glutin free diet. Research Paleo-diet. The most healthy diet of all! That is us! Research celiacs disease. You will find that most modern diseases did not exist amongst our people because we had a superior diet. My how things have changed since the days when we were the Fighting Sioux.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com