Lanky Livingston
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Just need to hunt down Graziano's email....
Couldn't find an email addy, but here is his ESPN mailbag link:
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/mailbag/_/id/38503/dan-graziano
Just need to hunt down Graziano's email....
If people really cared at all about us, then they would be looking to actually do something that helps us, and improves our image, not taking something that actually proves we exist away to make some guilty white person feel better.
Okay, I just asked him for his email address on Twitter, we'll see if he responds.
Shi No Tenshi...great write up!
These are issues you NEVER SEE ON MAINSTREAM MEDIA.
Tansei, Ryman!
Had it not been for the issue of changing the Redskins name, I would've remained ignorant to the severity of the plight of Native Americans. Certainly, I have some awareness that life on the reservation sucks. But to what degree, I suppose I've never really considered it. If the mainstream media covers anything related to Natives Americans, it's almost never about the appalling conditions. Instead, all I've run across are the every-so-often debates about the sports mascots and the enormous wealth generated from casinos. You might say, I've been led to think that the situation is getting better and the only care is appeasing some that may be offended by a sport team's choice of moniker.
This thread is teaching me that my senses are dulled. I want to change that.
My hope is that the debate over name change sheds more light on the real issues. Keep posting the personal stories that shed more light on these conditions.
there are a few reserves that have casinos, mostly in cali, a few in massaschusetts, but the vast majority of reserves are poor, worse yet the majority of reserves are worse than third world countries. don't take my word for it, I suggest going to places like Pine ridge of pretty much any reserve in the southwest, particularly the pima and apache reserves. There are some bad reserves up here but nothing in Canada even approaches some of the reserves in the states its a really horrible thing to see.
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