I have never been proud to be a Native American. Another thread on this forum triggered this realization. I have pale skin compared to my brothers & sisters. My mother is full Plains Cree and my dad is part German and Cherokee. At a young age I learned to hate myself and everything my nationality represented. I was well on my way to being assimilated, having no knowledge of my mother tongue, not having an Indian name as a child and complete ignorance of my traditions as a Cree.

I've been toying with this idea for a while now and need to get it out.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately and am looking for a few other ideas about this whole scenario.

The recent Kingston canal murders of four women of colour are still under investigation, but formal charges have been laid against the father, mother, and brother of three of the victims (with the fourth suspected of being a first wife of the father).

This week, in the online clergy discussions in which I participate, we have been going back and forth about the use of words in sermon illustrations. It began when one pastor noted he had used the word "nigger" when telling a story *about* someone who had said it. *He himself* was not using the word, but was illustrating how racism continues, and wanted his congregation to sit up and take note.

A younger poster said that she did not  know who were the Bunkers.In my opinion, this show changed television for ever. It is the first time that racism, sexism and all the other biases were revealed in a prime time show.

It is said that if an episode of All In the Family were put in a time capsule, it would capitulate the way that we were thinking and acting in the 60's and 70's. We see ourselves in the characters and I think change in our ideologies started with this show.

What do you think?

Now, so of you have no idea what world of warcraft is, let alone Barrens chat.  World of Warcraft is a mmorpg (massive multiple-player on-line role-playing game), which has over 10million subscribers forking out approx @$12/month)

Barrens chat is known on many servers for a place for foolish chat.  It has a reputation for Chuck Norris jokes, and inappropriate jokes. 

Trade chat also can be taken over at times, by similair behaviour.