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5-19-2008 12:34 AM351 views
masbury says:
Nakba at 60
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5-19-2008 6:37 AM
Spelunkin
Thanks for the Clip, Monte. Seems only fair if Israel is going to celebrate sixty years of glorious larceny, then we should remember how Israel's existence came into being.
5-19-2008 11:36 PM
masbury
You bet, thanks for the encouragement!
5-20-2008 4:12 AM
michellezm
I wonder, Masbury, do you ever stand up for the oppressed people of your own country who were systematically deprived of their land, decimated by disease and slaughtered - the American Indian who is still a virtual non-entity in their own land? Just wondering.
5-20-2008 2:05 PM
masbury
You bet! They are in the news less, and so there are fewer chances for clipping, so they appear more in my blog than in my clips. Here are a couple of examples: Reclaiming America from Illegal Immigrants, and Time to Pay Up. The latter, in fact, begins by pointing up the very similarity you mention:
I hope you read the summary of Juan Cole’s excellent speech on the history of Iran-US relations. Because...
5-20-2008 2:18 PM
masbury
We will never be able to repay the restitution that we as a nation owe to Native Americans, African-Americans, and Mexican-Americans. The task of we who are white, I believe, is not to prescribe solutions - they are more than capable of that - but to pull back the curtains on the European-American bias that the history we've learned contains.
5-20-2008 2:32 PM
michellezm
Thank you, Masbury. Well said.and thanks for the links.
5-20-2008 10:35 PM
masbury
Thank you, and my pleasure. Is this an issue that you've worked on some?
5-20-2008 11:52 PM
ratilfar
Funny you should mention that, it reminds me of something I wrote last year:

The Last One

[i]The Old Man sat across from me, the Light from the Fire reflected in his Eyes
His skin, rugged with Age, matched the red Earth beneath our feet
He spoke in an Alien tongue, but I understood him when he said Brother
He spoke of the Great Journey, across a Sea of Ice and Frozen Tundra
From vast grass Plains to deep Jungles and Andean heights
As he spoke I sense Life ebb from him
He was the Last One and I was his Witness
Witness for his struggles and the struggles of countless Generations
To Grow, to Be, to Live
From Earth mounds and Pyramids to Cities that touched the Sky
And then his Eyes cl...
5-21-2008 6:00 PM
masbury
Wow, thanks!
5-21-2008 6:28 PM
ratilfar
It is a weird story how I came to write the words above, they literally came to me in a dream or in the last dream fragment before I woke up. The imagery was so vivid that I had to write it.

It ain't Yeats, but then again I am not fond of poetry.
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