Now this is just plain stupid! WaPo reports:
Native Americans across the country -- including tribal leaders, academics and rank-and-file tribe members -- voiced anger and frustration Thursday that President Bush has responded to the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history with silence.
Three days after 16-year-old Jeff Weise killed nine members of his Red Lake tribe before taking his own life, grief-stricken American Indians complained that the White House has offered little in the way of sympathy for the tribe situated in the uppermost region of Minnesota.
"From all over the world we are getting letters of condolence, the Red Cross has come, but the so-called Great White Father in Washington hasn't said or done a thing," said Clyde Bellecourt, a Chippewa Indian who is the founder and national director of the American Indian Movement here...."
Let's get this straight. A deranged Chippewa Indian kid shoots up a school, and the tribe want's a call from the President and is offended when it doesn't come. Not just the tribe, but "Native Americans across the country." Come on people -- get a life!!!! This kind of seventies style politics of outrage and exquisitely tuned sensibilities was insane when it was in its heyday -- today it's just pathetic.
You could see just how incredibly lame this "anger and frustration" is when "academics" are among the outraged.
Poor Cici. Having to write up crap like this with a straight face.
Read the whole silly thing here.
Oh, and for the feminists out there, catch the uber-patriarchal "Great White Father" statement from AIM. Maybe he was just being sarcastic, but even if he is, it's a hopelessly dated reference
and it just makes him look silly.
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