Will there never be an end to the Indian wars? (racist thugs)

[govegan]

Just when I think the neo-fascist thugs can stoop no lower, damn if it doesn't happen again!

Thinking of the recent story about black children being sent to the back of the bus, how can we be shocked when this kind of viscous hate speech is so "mainstream?"

Posted today in Indian Country Today: http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096413533

Steve and his new roommate, Zagar, share an apartment. But the half-naked Zagar, a Native tribesman, is tough to live with. He eats Steve's canary, tries to light a fire under the bathtub and shoots arrows at the cat, hitting Steve instead. This wacky ''odd couple'' can't seem to connect ... except over a refreshing beer.

So begins the latest ad campaign for Bud Light. Titled ''Zagar and Steve,'' it consists of several television commercials and flash videos. The commercials have aired since July on programs such as ''Saturday Night Live.''

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I have no television. Perhaps reading Orwell, Huxley, Thoreau & Shelley just posed too many questions to allow any kind of enthusiasm for the mass insanity.

As the author suggests:

Anheuser-Busch should halt this offensive ad campaign before the next arrow hurts someone. If it doesn't, Natives and others concerned with minority stereotyping should make their voices heard.

Rob Schmidt is a freelance writer who specializes in Native and multicultural subjects. He maintains a Stereotype of the Month contest at www.bluecorncomics.com.

In a way, I am stunned at the depths to which monopolist capitalism will drive the spirit, stopping at nothing to crush and destroy any light in any heart.

"You do not know how to bind your heart to the skylark, or your eyes to the hardened blue hills. Return to the sorrow in which you have hidden your truth." L. Cohen, Book of Mercy #16

[geardaddy]

1. K & R

[mom cat]

2. Deeper and deeper into the pit we slide.

Ugh!

[Karenina]

4. Und so schnell!

:hide:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Not to defend Budweiser...

and certainly not to defend their "beer"...

But could "Zagar" be a caveman?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HYTdqpq1_uY

[bvar22]

5. "Zagar"

...not a Native Amweican name I've ever heard.

[govegan]

6. Not to defend Zagar -- but could you be a caveperson?

" The Web site tries to obscure Zagar's origin by saying he comes from ''parts unknown.'' This may be an attempt to locate him in a remote, fantasy-like setting and thus immunize him from criticism. But with his bowl-cut black hair and coppery skin, Zagar is clearly an Amazon Indian."

Try this: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/282349_muckleshoot24.html

Kenneth passed out in the car on the way back to his aunt's house, and others had to carry him inside. Worried and angry, his 16-year-old sister eventually made everyone leave and called her dad.

A man accused of buying liquor for a 13-year-old boy and doing little to stop him from gulping a lethal amount of it may now be the first person in King County to be held criminally responsible for such a death.

Leonard Wayne III -- a fellow Muckleshoot Indian Tribe member and longtime friend of the boy's father -- was charged Wednesday with second-degree manslaughter.

"Do you know how it is to hold on to anything in the dark,
said the man who was the child of unspoken wishes
rattling the toys in the ghost house?" -- The Song of the House in the House -- J. Harjo

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How many times have media experts refuted such self-serving statements? ''The usual task of these representations is to cast us as part of a distant past, rather than a dynamic present,'' said Loretta Todd, a Metis/Cree filmmaker, to an interviewer. ''Media image is especially crucial because it is that image that looms large as non-Indians decide the fate of Indian people,'' said Rennard Strickland, a retired Osage/Cherokee professor of law, in the Native Times.
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The US of A, under its neo-fascist regime, specializes in deciding the fate of indigenous peoples. "Freedom is on the march," trampling on your native head because you are an ignorant savage (to complete the unsaid portion of the phrase).

Perhaps Freedom should learn to go no more a roving.

Or should we just thank the advertising person for saving us from our body that sweats?