Hawaiians Sign Petition Against Dodge Kahuna - General Tiki

JD Johnny Dollar Tiki Socialite Flyover, Missourah Joined: Oct 01, 2003 Posts: 3159	JD Johnny Dollar Posted posted on Fri, Feb 6, 2004 1:18 PM On 2004-02-06 12:02, Sneakytiki wrote: The problem with naming teams or cars after Native Americans or Hawaiians isn’t some surface PC boohoo Natives issue. It’s not even that people are making fun of us, it’s that they are taking away our humanity. It’s a deep and insidious problem. MOST people, not ALL, most have no Hawaiian dentist or Mohawk neighboor next door. The images they have of Indigenous Americans are taken from the media who almost always show us in the PAST tense. (snip) check out this thread regarding a maybe minutely positive change in the above-mentioned public attitudes... http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=7589&forum=6&0

On 2004-02-06 12:02, Sneakytiki wrote:
The problem with naming teams or cars after Native Americans or Hawaiians isn’t some surface PC boohoo Natives issue. It’s not even that people are making fun of us, it’s that they are taking away our humanity. It’s a deep and insidious problem. MOST people, not ALL, most have no Hawaiian dentist or Mohawk neighboor next door. The images they have of Indigenous Americans are taken from the media who almost always show us in the PAST tense. (snip)

check out this thread regarding a maybe minutely positive change in the above-mentioned public attitudes...

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=7589&forum=6&0

Post #74871 by Johnny Dollar on Fri, Feb 6, 2004 1:18 PM