Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Justice Held Hostage
A recent conversation I had regarding the efficacy of Native American sovereignty, reminded me of the incoherence and arrogance of Euro-Americans as a whole in expressing their confusion, impatience, and frustration with the ongoing process of resolving centuries of grievance and trauma--what in essence amounts to our mutual social inheritance. What caught me by surprise, though, in this disturbing discussion, was the unguarded remark that the possibility of a violent response to any meaningful attempt by US citizens to right the wrongs of our bloody history, should somehow be viewed as justification for our political laziness or cowardice in confronting vigilantes, or I presume, bigotry in general.
