[Vision2020] Buffalo:Cruel Joke Relates to Cruel History!

[Don Coombs]

  What I make of your response is that you think the 
Nez Perce should be called what you think they should 
be called, not what they want to be called.

Yes, I assume the Lewiston Trib did get guidance from 
Nez Perce in leadership positions. That's what I would 
hope the editors would do.

At this point, I'm out of here, on this topic. My God, 
isn't there anything new worth comment? Hunter Thompson 
died, Sandra Dee (nee Alexandra Zuck) died. Hunter was 
right about so many things -- not when he went on 
record, but later, the venal right-wing sons of bitches 
who run this country raised their game to the point 
where Hunter BECAME right.

Yeah, I wrote that last sentence in memory of Hunter.

Don Coombs

Tbertruss at aol.com wrote:
> 
> Don et. al.
> 
> When you say "they" referring to the Nez Perce who wanted to be called 
> "Indian," this may refer to some in leadership positions, not to all Nez 
> Perce.  I have been very close friends with some Nez Perce, and they did 
> not like being referred to as an "Indian," due to the history of this 
> word as an inaccurate and imposed naming of the native population by 
> Europeans.  If people chose to use a certain questionable word to refer 
> to a racial group, and everyone involved thinks it is acceptable, this 
> does not mean the history of the word and what this implies is 
> irrelevant.  Some Native Americans, just as well as other racial groups, 
> have assimilated the racist views and historical distortions the 
> dominant culture here in the USA continues to propagate.
> 
> If I think it is OK to be called a "white honky," does this mean the 
> term is not derogatory in the broader social, political and historical 
> context?
> 
> Ted Moffett