Bridgeing the Gap
All you "white" guys are all the same! Don't you "Indians" respect anything! You "white" a**hole! "White" guys don't know how to love your faimly!! Why Didn't you marry a " Indain " then!! I should of atleast a "Indain" puts there faimly first!! Go back to your reserve then you "scaw"!!! I will, I hate every last one of you "White"a**holes , all any of you ever do is take and never give, you all take everything for granted!!!!!! Good I hate all you "Indians" your all the same, you all just take everything for granted, and don't respect anything!!!!!!!!! I hate you!!!!!!!!!!! I hate you too!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's hard to believe that two people that love eachother to tears, could talk to eachother like that. But that was kind of a generic fight between Elana and I. When we fought it wasn't just a fight, it was Cowboys & Indains! Why?
Really you probley don't have to look back any further then yesterday. There is a huge culture gap, that is the root coase of alot of misunderstanding. Honestly alot of us in main stream white culture really do have our priorities mixed up. Prosparity and material things is what alot of us gauge ourselves by. Not the love inside the home, its the size of the house, and that is totaly the wrong way of looking at stuff, and really you see examples of destroyed faimlies every where with the guy is left sitting scracthing his head, thinking " What was her problem? I worked as hard as I could, I even built her this big house, she had everything she wanted". Well really alot of us white guys arn't giving our wives what they really want. They want to be loved and feel loved, that is somthing that money can't buy. It's somthing that is earned in the trenches, somthing that you have to work on everyday. It's somthing that most of Indains men have figred out. I didn't figre it out till last year, I was left on the side of the curb, I did work around the clock to try and buy what I had to earn.
So us White guys see these Indians, and look and jugde them with ingronant eyes. We see a lazy Indain living off of socity , wicth is a lie, Indians do work! Some of the hardest working most skilled tradesmen I've worked with are Indians, I've never meet one that wasn't gifted with talent. You hear so many people talking about treaty cheaques, and how the Indians our rapping Canada. You know, I hear these statements coming alot of times from rich ranchers. But really they are no different then Indains on reserves, none of them have problems taking money from Oil companies, for oil leases on there lease land. How is the agreement that they made with the oil company any different then the agrement made years ago with the goverment and Indain bands? I'm sure they wouldn't like it to much if the Oil companies quit paying for their leases and kept using them. Think about it!!!!!!
Them drunkin dirty pigs. Yes there are a few Indains with drug and alcahol problems, but there are a few more white guys with problems too. But all in all there is a big differece. Really in our white socity drugs and alcahol are glorifeid and is not seeing as a problem ( but it's a big problem ) . Drinkin beer is a part of our lifestye, and more often then not if "Billy gets his beer gogles on" its seen as cute, funny etc........it's exceptable, even though its killing people everyday, destroying marriges everyday, destroying bussnisses, destroying lives etc...........
But in Indian socity, by large it's not exceptable, most of the Indains that I know look down at you if you drink. They have figred it out. There are lots of programs out there, bands are educating the people about alcahol & drugs . In White culture, we are inindated with Coors light advertisements, if you went on a reserve you arn't going to see one, your going to see a awearness advertisment.
The gap is pure ingronace, really how many of the white guy's out there spouting of all these racial slurs have ever been to a reserve? Very few I bet. Really In alot of ways Indains have alot they can be angry about, 95% of it isn't there doing. Its the making of white culture. Really if you really take a look at Indian culture they have alot more figred out then the white culture, or atleast the importent bases covered.
A month ago I met a big burley man from Sisika, his name is Toad Munroe. He has started a Ministry called " Bridgeing The Gap ". I really don't know much about it yet, other then this summer he is haveing a gathering out there on his place at Sisika, there is going to be a BBQ, some singing, and some Testamonilals. It really speaks to me I think his ministry is really importent. when I learn more about it I'll defenitly be telling you all about it.
It's hard to believe that two people that love eachother to tears, could talk to eachother like that. But that was kind of a generic fight between Elana and I. When we fought it wasn't just a fight, it was Cowboys & Indains! Why?
Really you probley don't have to look back any further then yesterday. There is a huge culture gap, that is the root coase of alot of misunderstanding. Honestly alot of us in main stream white culture really do have our priorities mixed up. Prosparity and material things is what alot of us gauge ourselves by. Not the love inside the home, its the size of the house, and that is totaly the wrong way of looking at stuff, and really you see examples of destroyed faimlies every where with the guy is left sitting scracthing his head, thinking " What was her problem? I worked as hard as I could, I even built her this big house, she had everything she wanted". Well really alot of us white guys arn't giving our wives what they really want. They want to be loved and feel loved, that is somthing that money can't buy. It's somthing that is earned in the trenches, somthing that you have to work on everyday. It's somthing that most of Indains men have figred out. I didn't figre it out till last year, I was left on the side of the curb, I did work around the clock to try and buy what I had to earn.
So us White guys see these Indians, and look and jugde them with ingronant eyes. We see a lazy Indain living off of socity , wicth is a lie, Indians do work! Some of the hardest working most skilled tradesmen I've worked with are Indians, I've never meet one that wasn't gifted with talent. You hear so many people talking about treaty cheaques, and how the Indians our rapping Canada. You know, I hear these statements coming alot of times from rich ranchers. But really they are no different then Indains on reserves, none of them have problems taking money from Oil companies, for oil leases on there lease land. How is the agreement that they made with the oil company any different then the agrement made years ago with the goverment and Indain bands? I'm sure they wouldn't like it to much if the Oil companies quit paying for their leases and kept using them. Think about it!!!!!!
Them drunkin dirty pigs. Yes there are a few Indains with drug and alcahol problems, but there are a few more white guys with problems too. But all in all there is a big differece. Really in our white socity drugs and alcahol are glorifeid and is not seeing as a problem ( but it's a big problem ) . Drinkin beer is a part of our lifestye, and more often then not if "Billy gets his beer gogles on" its seen as cute, funny etc........it's exceptable, even though its killing people everyday, destroying marriges everyday, destroying bussnisses, destroying lives etc...........
But in Indian socity, by large it's not exceptable, most of the Indains that I know look down at you if you drink. They have figred it out. There are lots of programs out there, bands are educating the people about alcahol & drugs . In White culture, we are inindated with Coors light advertisements, if you went on a reserve you arn't going to see one, your going to see a awearness advertisment.
The gap is pure ingronace, really how many of the white guy's out there spouting of all these racial slurs have ever been to a reserve? Very few I bet. Really In alot of ways Indains have alot they can be angry about, 95% of it isn't there doing. Its the making of white culture. Really if you really take a look at Indian culture they have alot more figred out then the white culture, or atleast the importent bases covered.
A month ago I met a big burley man from Sisika, his name is Toad Munroe. He has started a Ministry called " Bridgeing The Gap ". I really don't know much about it yet, other then this summer he is haveing a gathering out there on his place at Sisika, there is going to be a BBQ, some singing, and some Testamonilals. It really speaks to me I think his ministry is really importent. when I learn more about it I'll defenitly be telling you all about it.
posted by scattered seeds at 7:41 AM
1 Comments:
Trav,
You're bloggin like crazy!!!
Keep it up!
We're just finishing up the semester.
Soon we'll be Alberta bound!
Blessings brother,
Clint
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