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Originally Posted by Don

Vacationing in Hawaii several years ago, I was stunned to hear a native Hawaiian tour guide openly brag about how there were beaches in Hawaii whose use was restricted to ethnic Hawaiians. How can this kind of apartheid type of arrangement be legal in the USA under the Civil Rights Acts? It is legal because in under the prevailing racial caste system in the US, whites are on the bottom and occupy a status of citizenship that is subordinate to any non-white, that's how.

Hawaiians are quite open and unapologetic about their hatred of white people and their pleasure they take in humiliating them.

Another tour guide at an ancient village site bragged about how the villiage chief had the power of life and death over villagers and could summarily kill anyone who crossed the chief's shadow. Isn't this wonderful???

However, before white missionaries came, Hawaiians had no written language and the institutions of slavery, the slaughter of prisoners of war and summary execution by their leaders were well established parts of their "culture." They're also very proud of the warrior heritage and will regale white tourists with tales of how bravely rival Hawaiian tribes slaughtered and enslaved each other. A tour guide described one quaint little "cultural" ritual as follows: After capturing a prisoner from a rival tribe, they would throw him into an enclosed lagoon with couple of tiger sharks, and then kick back with some of their local home brew while the the poor devil flailed around as sharks tore him apart and devoured him. Dirty rotten white racists made them give up this quaint practice, as well as slavery and torture. (No wonder they hate us.)

These same third world primitives who bitch and moan about the burdens of American citizenship (free speech, jury trial, due process, equal rights for women, emancipation of slaves, etc.) are now demanding independence so they can return to their idyllic life of torturing, killing and eating each other.

I say let them have it.

Closer to home, at least some casino Indians reserve the first few rows of a show for tribal members only - a sold out show with no tribal members attending would have at least the front three rows vacant.

It's the "home" which never was concerning those who were once under dogs.

Indians will imagine an aboriginal paradise, without counting in the inter tribal hatreds and inhuman warfare along with slavery and slaughter. The Europeans merely had better weapons and microbes.

It is said that, in Mexico, the angriest Diego Rivera can never go home - the sentimental pining for the Mexico which exists only in the imagination of intellectuals, the actual Indian empires the Spaniards conquered cannot keep up with what is in a wishful national consciousness.

In some ways too, what is the myth which came out of the reality of the growth of the United States? What versions are we to believe several generations after the fact and from which point of view?