Quote:
Originally Posted by hip hop bunny hop
Russel Means said:
link
In otherwords, because many various tribes of the Indians are still existent, to group them all together as "Native Americans" is fallacious because it implies a commonality of history and current circumstance which simply does not exist. It's the implication of this imaginary totality which these terms reference which is problematic, not the terms themselves. This is why your post is problematic, because you're insisting on the reality of the imaginary.
|
Which has **** all to do with whether or not the Native Americans have been legitimately ****ed over by the US. Thanks for that pointless bit of trivia though.