Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

  There is an ad on Canadian TV about a young man that is half White and half Native and how it is being caught in the middle. He feels that neither race is very concerned or caring about his situation, and he may be right as that is often the case in mixed race people. Rather than looking at it as being and outsider he would do much better to celebrate his difference and challenge the ones that are not mixed to reconsider their position.

  Native peoples in the America’s, and I suspect, all over the world have made a practice of claiming the high ground for their particular tribe. This in turn causes tribes to fight one another and one of the side effects of the fighting is usually the taking of women and children by one tribe to the other. Those others are so bad or whatever and yet they are good to raise as ours and great breeding stock to keep us from becoming idiots from inbreeding even if they did not know a thing about such possibilities. 

   White or black or brown or red all have done the same thing whether it be to take from an enemy or to create another slave that has been the way of the world. The problem is compounded by the bias of racial superiority and the resulting violence that comes from that bias. If we were not all human then the interbreeding would not be possible. 

  The tribal attitude is what brings about nations and all the nonsense that goes with that. Everyone has a little different outlook on almost every aspect of life and like mindedness is one of the things that create nations. We draw lines or put up walls or whatever to keep them out and then set up rules so that if one or two decide that the way of life in one place doesn’t suit we are able to move to another country and get on with our lives. Some of those rules are there to make sure no one comes to our country unless they have a skill we need or lots of money.

   The people that advocate the harsher rules should all be subject to screening to see if they would be able to cross the border if they were trying to enter the country.