Where White Man Went Wrong

[JJVP]

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=OC3bqTcz8Oc[/youtube]

[Jumping Frog]

Link no work.

[jmra]

Worked for me. I wasn't overly impressed.

[RX8er]

Worked for me. I wasn't overly impressed.

[G26ster]

Once again, satire IMHO.

[Kadelic]

It is not satire. The reason y'all don't get it is because it's a white man narrating a Native American anecdote. It would be like trying to listen to Obama give a pro 2A speech. Your ears would hear the words but it wouldn't make sense...and you probably wouldn't get it anyway. Maybe the massacre of Wounded Knee makes sense?

It's about a way of life that was wiped out. Why? Because some felt superior and entitled by an imagined sense of righteousness. Aren't we in a similar situation now? Colors are a sad way to judge a man or a woman under any circumstances. Valuing and exercising our Second Amendment rights is a way of life many in the government would like to see wiped out, and for most of the same reasons "we" wiped out the Native Americans: It's easier with no resistance.

[jmra]

I get it. My grandmother was full blooded. My mother was born in the same tent my grandmother died in two years later.

I'm still not impressed.

[Kadelic]

It's not about an impression. It's about perspective and respect.

[Kadelic]

...which is unimpressive and irrelevant today. I get that.

[jmra]

It's not about an impression. It's about perspective and respect.

I understand what you are saying, I just don't feel that this video comes anywhere near delivering that message.

[The Annoyed Man]

I guess I'm supposed to feel bad for being white, and for any ancestral guilt. I get it.

And for the record, the original telling of that message was a JOKE, people. Comedians told it. On stage. The "white man retelling the Indian's story" is apocryphal. http://www.lecontact.com/archives_of_jokes_11.htm

But I'm a white man, so what do I know.

[JJVP]

Man, this is a tough crowd. I found it funny and took it as a satirical joke with some measure of truth to it.

[Kadelic]

My mistake. I beg your pardon for taking it seriously. My comments weren't about any inherited guilt or being white. I guess I should relax and take a joke for what it is.

[The Annoyed Man]

Man, this is a tough crowd. I found it funny and took it as a satirical joke with some measure of truth to it.

And that is exactly how I took it, but what followed seemed a little bit much.......but then I've just finished reading on another site about how the degree of difficulty of my life is easier than anybody else's because I'm a white heterosexual male, and so therefore anything I say must be automatically devalued by that amount because I can never relate to how hard anybody else's life is. I am self employed, in a difficult business, battered by an economy whose toxicity has been increased by a black racist president, in which I cannot qualify for government work because I am routed to the bottom of the list of acceptable vendors because I am a white heterosexual male..........strictly by accident of birth......and I am partially disabled to boot, but I refuse to suckle at that government teat. The person who wrote the above mentioned web page, who claims himself to be a white heterosexual male, is a flippin' lunatic. It appears that the world has completely lost its collective mind. So when I came back here for a little sanity, I saw someone who couldn't see the joke, and wanted me to believe that it took someone like me to ruin a good thing.

Even so, come Jesus, come.

[Kadelic]

I see the joke. I admitted to taking it out of context and my response was a bit much. I guess the second paragraph of my first post in this thread was unread or misinterpreted. I think I'm roughly on the same page as some of y'all on this site, otherwise I wouldn't bother. I know I don't post much. Guess I'll have to jump in more often, and more relevantly.