tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post8390944618337037485..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: Wassegijig doesn't respect "redskins"Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-13223784952634336042009-04-07T15:09:00.000-07:002009-04-07T15:09:00.000-07:00You were owned again rob. geezYou were owned again rob. geezarty martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13355149702309401683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-22315411257199784392009-03-25T06:08:00.000-07:002009-03-25T06:08:00.000-07:00Yes, don't expect a response right away because yo...Yes, don't expect a response right away because you know how incredibly busy I am. That <I>is</I> what you meant, isn't it? Or were you insinuating that I'm refusing to reply for some reason?<BR/><BR/>The first possibility is the truth and the second is a stupid slander. I've said that no one is going to attack me personally in my own blog--even if it's an attack on my timeliness. Your choices are to address the issues, shut up and wait, or get lost...period.<BR/><BR/>I'll leave your insinuations this time, but don't be surprised if I delete them next time. They're nothing but negative sniping--irrelevant to the substance of this debate. I said it before and I'll say it again: No one is going to clutter my blog with worthless personal attacks.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-5368884615000054752009-02-26T17:22:00.000-08:002009-02-26T17:22:00.000-08:00lol. I know, right? ;Plol. I know, right? ;Pkalisetsihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11306902761030831168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-22089222347312860832009-02-20T21:10:00.000-08:002009-02-20T21:10:00.000-08:00I wouldn't expect a reply very soon Kalisetsi. ;)I wouldn't expect a reply very soon Kalisetsi. ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-62632410055816676922009-02-19T23:14:00.000-08:002009-02-19T23:14:00.000-08:00Hi Rob. I appreciate the topics that you cover as ...Hi Rob. I appreciate the topics that you cover as well as your perspective on things. I have been a fan of your "stereotype of the month" page for probably close to a decade. However, I often wonder why someone apparently so concerned that Native peoples be treated with proper respect would continually spend so much time writing about issues of Native identity, authenticity, and what we choose to call ourselves. Being that you are not Native yourself. In this case, my issue is not the magazine title "Redskin," but the propriety of you as a non-Native putting down Natives who choose for their own reasons to stand behind that name and use it however they want. Clearly, many well-known Natives have associated themselves with Redskin magazine; are you really ready to say they are all ignorant? And that you, as a non-Native, are a better judge of the word "Redskin" than Native people themselves? Do you not see the irony, hypocrisy, and assumed privilege on your part when you talk down to us Natives and try to "enlighten us" as to how our own grandparents were treated? Or anything about our traditions? I'm pretty sure that you've never been called a "tree n*gger" in your life. I'm curious why you are so invested in the issue of Native authenticity and your interpretation of political correctness to the point that you sometimes belittle, dismiss, break apart, and disrespect Native people's feedback to you on these very issues? Which concern US? You aren't Native. Not to say your voice isn't important or you shouldn't write about Native things, but you need to respect that our experiences are not yours. You don't know what its like to be us, and the WAY you write about some of these things is offensive to Natives, just by virtue of the fact that you are an outsider. I have been reading you for years, and watched you debate and rather arrogantly dismiss numerous individuals and tribes as inauthentic. So my comment is in response really to your pattern of writing in general, and not just this one particular blog entry.(I am Cherokee by way of Kentucky, and my husband is 1/2 blood Pequot and 1/4 blood Shinnecock, so I read your dismissal of Johnny Depp and the Pequots with much interest). However, I didn't realize until recently that you aren't NDN. I saw your picture, but just assumed all this time that you were Native until I recently read your bio. (I'm Cherokee, so I'm more open-minded about judging based on phenotype). I don't think its your place to decide who is or isn't Native. For you to do that, as a non-NDN, I think its just as destructive to us as some of the stereotypical images that you post up on "stereotype of the month". When you think that you are such an expert that you are more right about anything Native than Native peoples themselves.....well, that sounds a little like a "Hobby Indian" telling us how to sing our songs the "RIGHT way". Again, I very much appreciate reading your blog, and don't mean to insult you. I'm just asking you to give my words some serious thought. Beyond just picking them apart, piece by piece.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-41481138161087326372009-02-17T04:18:00.000-08:002009-02-17T04:18:00.000-08:00I find any words that were created to disempower a...I find any words that were created to disempower and humuliate by putting people into groups based on stereo-typed racial identities offensive. Many claim that when those who have been oppressed by such words use and claim them that they free themselves from the tyranny of their meanings, but I believe that as long as those words float around their origins will be remembered, questioned and present. As long as those words are spoken, printed and recalled in every day life there will always be those who will find power in using them as racial slurs to hurt, box in and feel superior to people that can still find oppression in them. In my opinion it's best to pull them out of our vocabulary, bury them, say a prayer and move on.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18176109795167713603noreply@blogger.com