Thursday, January 26, 2006
Boilerplate Hate
While our current attention is focused on Latino scapegoating by GOP-sanctioned militias, the anti-Indian sovereignty campaign continues over economic, environmental, and cultural issues. Raids by state and federal police in New York and Arizona recently are the prelude to a bitter attack on Indian nations expected over the next few years.
These are not entirely separate issues from the largely Mestizo immigrants; the same people threatening Latin Americans are threatening Indians. Same ideology, same tactics, same disruption to stable communities, same violence, same social movement, same hate entrepreneurs, same political backing. If we are part of a developing human rights movement, these, as well as civil rights for American Blacks, have to remain inseparable items on our agenda.
These are not entirely separate issues from the largely Mestizo immigrants; the same people threatening Latin Americans are threatening Indians. Same ideology, same tactics, same disruption to stable communities, same violence, same social movement, same hate entrepreneurs, same political backing. If we are part of a developing human rights movement, these, as well as civil rights for American Blacks, have to remain inseparable items on our agenda.
