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Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] ------Cherokee Removal
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:49:20 EDT
Coz Pat
I love to read what you write and how you write
and everything you write
is true
but everybody thinks differently.
I don't think the majority of people
learn from the past they keep repeating history.
I think if the Cherokee can get free this and that why not
if it can make life easier. I am a parasite and if I didn't have
a husband to feed me I would probably starve to death.
My Parents were hard working people so I don't know
where I got my lazy genes but they are me and I am me
There are many people that are not clever that work all
their lives and never get ahead making other people rich
I hear all the time that many families are in the
street poor and without medical care which is heartbreaking
While Canada Australia and England have free medical care.
When someone is good to me I owe them forever. I have a
good friend that I don't even remember what she did
when I was a teen ager she made me fool good when I felt bad .
I cant think back that far
she had done things afterwards that I could choke her for but
I will always be her friend no matter what because even tho
I don't remember what she was there for
she was there for me.
On the other hand I have my list of endangered species
I hold a grudge forever its not that I think about it but its there
Its just the way I am. To me there are people filed in my head
as Danger poison I don't think of them or want them near me.
So some people have long memories. Like me
I don't blame the people in the present what their ancestors did.
But on the other hand I see for myself that apples don't fall far from
the trees
I was taught that there is good and bad so this conflicts with
what I was taught.
In fact I find everything conflicts with everything
So I never know what to think.
I just try to accept people for what they are and not try to understand them
Because half the time I cant understand myself.
Also I see in New York people seem to segregate themselves.
For Instance Years ago in the east 80s it was called German town
because there were
a few blocks that all the German people went to live. Down town is a
section called
China town where all the chinese people went to live.
Lower east side is where all the Jewish people went to live.
All really means many I am just to lazy to go back and change all the
wording
Up town we have Harlem where all the Black people used to live. People
seem to be more comfortable living near the same people that speak their
language and think their thoughts.
Of course there is always people who want to live with everyone and that
doesn't make everyone happy.
For Instance I remember this White woman who her husband died and she
had 4 kids and money was tight and went to live in Harlem in a cheaper
apartment and no one wanted to be her friend and her kids were ignored or
bullied because they were white.
I agree with you I dont know how anybody feels about anything and my
feelings change often.
Ema
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Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] ------Cherokee Removal
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I may be stepping on some toes here, but as far as I know, every person in
the geographical confines of North and South America is an immigrant, or is
the descendant of an immigrant. And, the record shows that these immigrant
groups did not get along all the time, and took over each other's
"territories." And, I don't care whether you are talking about pre-historic
immigration and movement, or the English insisting that the Germans live in
western Pennsylvania.
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