Even people who are so white they glow in the dark claim to have some Indian in them--and in my part of the country, these tend to be the same people who hate Mexicans, who really are a mixture of white and Indian. Funny, they don't look like the Mexicans and you'd think they would if they have the same racial makeup. Anyway, what is it? Guilt? Wanting to feel persecuted even though they know their ancestors did the persecuting? Even my mother claimed to have Indian in her, and her family was descended from eastern and central European immigrants--her grandmother and great-aunts all learned English in school, since they only spoke Italian! I work with people who dye their hair dark black, go to tanning beds, and claim to be Cherokee. I don't get it.
2007-03-04
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