Scoop’s Views

Words. Nothing but words is what it comes down to from U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) who is cheering about the U.S. Senate passing an apology, tacked on to the Indian Health Bill, that was approved last week.

Mere words, nothing else, yet Brownback thinks the forked tongue the White Man, let alone politicians, are known to have, is going to help restore the relationship between the United States and Native Americans. Don’t make me laugh.

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Nike, it seems is doing something sort of unique: it’s doing target marketing to a specific segment of society.

Before you jump up and down, wanting to hit that comment button and tell me how stupid I am, telling me many companies already do that, listen to me. Okay?

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Long before 1492 when good ol’ Chris Columbus set sail on Wednesday, August 3, 1492, with the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, groups of people, collectively called in my-speak, injuns. I prefer the term injuns as opposed to terms in Newspeak, PC or politically correct terms such as “Native Americans” or whatever. Anyone born in the U.S. could claim to be “native American,” but then comes that issue of capitalization of the “N” in native. Since many folks don’t even speak properly, let alone know how to write a complete sentence, much less worry about punctuation, capitalization, and other petty issues, I prefer to stick with a word everyone can understand. Since I am an injun, I will use it. If you take offence, great. Offend yourself all you want.

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