Fireduck

2002.11.28.00.38.23

Taking this history class, reading these books....alot of fucked up shit has happened. Just in fairly recent US history, there was the killing and removal of natives, slavery..those were the big ones that come to mind. Maybe things like that will happen again if we are not vigalent. I wonder what I might have done if I was there. If some officer told me to shoot a bunch of dirty indians, would I have been able to say "No, Sir." and try to convince anyone who would listen to stop the insanity. If you were in the US before the civil war, would you have tried to not notice the fucked up situation, or would you have acted against it, or participated in it? I think I would have acted against it, but who knows? I view the incidents with a much different perspective than those then must have, but I don't see how it can be that much different. I think if someone tried to convince me that I was their property, and I beleived I was powerless to stop it through less violent means, I would attack my would be captor with every weapon at my disposal. Surely, I would probaby die, but my children and my people will not be slaves if enough rebel completely. Fucked up times. Hopefully they will never be repeated, but I for one, and anyone I can influence will be watching and ready to step in and say no. All I can control with certainly is my own actions, this dosen't mean I wont try to effect the world around me.

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