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Re: "Roundup safe," et al

At 05:31 PM 5/19/98 -0700, you wrote:
>On Mon, 18 May 1998, Bill DeWitt wrote:
>
>> 	If you worried about all this you would huddle in a corner until you
>> composted. Remember that the "Native Americans" were great pollutors of
>> this land long before we came here and someone else will be polluting it
>> after we are gone.
>
>I am sorry to disagree, but I speaking from my Native American roots I 
>disagree sharply that the Natives had the technology to pollute 
>anything.  They in most cases barely made a mark on the world of their
passing.
>
	Well, I have followed the progress of villages up rivers as they moved due
to the pollution of the streams making the water undrinkable and killing
off the fish. I call that pollution. We all have that technology built into
our guts.
	I have dug into trash mounds that still exist hundreds of years later (I
would call that a 'mark'), and still leach "organic" poison into the area.
I would rather find a polystyrene cup in a stream than the remains of a
family's digestion.
	Pollution is pollution. Poison is poison. If you want to define some
pollution as "Natural" and other as "Unnatural" due to the race of the folk
who made it,  I guess we are through talking about it, your mind was made
up before the facts were gathered.

	BTW, what -is- my ancestry?

>I may remind you that by the time YOUR ancestors arrived the countryside
>was a whole lot cleaner then your legacy has left it at the present.

	I guess you just assumed you know who my Ancestors are and when they
arrived here and what my legacy is. Bigotry is a comfortable spot, isn't
it? Allows you to ascribe a legacy to anyone of a certain skin color, no
matter what they may have done in their lives. I am guilty because some
other lightskinned folk, who are not related to me, did some things that I
would have tried to stop them from doing if I had been there.
	Oh, I am so ashamed!

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