1. Where do aboriginal peoples belong?

On the reserve or in the city?

1. Where do mexicans belong?

In Mexico or everywhere?


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Aboriginal peoples and Mexicans belong wherever the hell they choose or wish to be. We were here before the pinche gueros came, and we will be here after the last of them have died of soulless dessication.
<Sister Nivedita, Warrior for Truth >
- Sunday, September 21, 1997 at 15:31:25 (CST)

Aboriginal and Mexican people should be considered people, and not Aboriginal or Mexican. It is important to remember where we came from, and what our roots are, but we should all be identified as people. The more we destroy stereotypes and borders, the better.
<s33ther hybrid-human>
- Monday, September 22, 1997 at 18:22:11 (CST)

Excerpts from the CD "Beaner Go Home" by the rap group, Aztlan Nation. "It all started out as a fight for the land. They took away Texas, and began to expand. Still punk rednecks say: remember the Alamo. They don't want to know who I am, but let them know I'm the M.E.X.I.C.A.N. So hit the ground and prepare for sprayin' (bullets fired from an automatic carbine). Take what I got, I'm gonna take it right back." "They are immigrants. You are not immigrants. None of us are immigrants. The only immigrants is Atlantic Ocean wetbacks. Step back. We say in Aztlan, there are no fronteros, no borders. . ." ". . . getting hyped for the rumble, we just keep hitting 'till the border crumbles." "Revolution can take away my pains, but never the memories of Indian slaves. I belong to the new breed, planting my seeds, 'cause my people need, to tip the scales of justice 'till they tumble. We just keep hitting 'till the border crumbles." "By the year 2,000, Jack, we're gonna see who is the real wetback." "In two-triple-O, we take it back." "I'm not gonna sleep until we get some land." "Brewed in Aztlan by home-boys who know how to make a dead gringo." "So get blasted like a Smith & Wesson. Learn a lesson. Share the oppression." ". . . I wanna take a nine (9 mm pistol) and make their brains hang out." ". . . it's time. I'm gonna get the big payback."
<http://www.pocho.com/latest/beaner.html>
- Wednesday, September 24, 1997 at 13:21:31 (CST)

They belong wherever they want to be. Our name isn't printed on a special place and theirs' isn't either.
<cs005g@uhura.cc.rochester.edu>
- Thursday, September 25, 1997 at 22:17:19 (CST)

Sorry to answer a question with a question, but, Where do you belong? In other words wherever it suits them.
<Brian Goldfarb>
- Friday, September 26, 1997 at 10:19:39 (CST)

home is where the heart is
<nihkamohk@sk.sympatico.ca>
- Saturday, September 27, 1997 at 11:50:48 (CST)

1. on the reserve, mexicans belong in mexico.

- Tuesday, October 07, 1997 at 09:44:41 (CST)

Aboriginal people belong where there heart belongs. Mexicans belong where ther heart belongs.

- Tuesday, October 07, 1997 at 09:45:54 (CST)

Aboriginal people belong everywhere. This is a free country and no one person should be forced to live in a specific place. If a person wishes to reside on the reserve; it is up to them. This should also apply to Mexicans. They should have the same choices as any other Nationality.

- Tuesday, October 07, 1997 at 09:48:36 (CST)

I think Aboriginal People belong everywhere. This is a free country. It should be up to the person where they want to live.

- Tuesday, October 07, 1997 at 09:49:12 (CST)

aboriginal people and mexicans belong everywhere.

- Tuesday, October 07, 1997 at 09:50:04 (CST)

Aboriginal peoples are nomadic since the beginning of time. Since the colonialization of first nations people, there has been parcels of land set ] aside to for our ancestors to live upon. Who has that right to say where our peoples have to live?
<Arlette>
- Tuesday, October 07, 1997 at 09:50:52 (CST)

Mexicans belong everywhere, since it's afree country.

- Tuesday, October 07, 1997 at 09:51:30 (CST)

the way in which the question is asked assumes that there is a certian place where aboriginals and mexicans "belong" so no matter how my dumb white ass answers i will be telling people where they should or should not be. i guess that is pretty vague but i don't think there is really any place in particular that mexicans and aboriginals belong. wait a second that is like saying that there is no place that aboriginals or mexicans should be. see, the "right" response would probably be anywhere but i'm not so sure if that can be said as a blanket statement. it's a double edged sword.
<vocatll@meena.cc.uregina.ca>
- Wednesday, October 08, 1997 at 19:22:51 (CST)

Everywhere - it's all their land to begin with, and they are the peoples who respect it and have developed cultures which prioritize caring for it in a loving manner rather than cultually constructing blindfolds so that they may greedily and self-destructively exploit the land for their own perceived benefit as western peoples do.

- Sunday, October 12, 1997 at 13:55:52 (CST)

This is only a guess...Aboriginal and Mexicans 'belong' to where ever or what ever they want to belong to. Perhaps in the Northamerican context of 'belong' meaning where do they have a right to be? I'd say that Mexicans can be anywhere they want to be; Australian Aboriginals though, might want to dress a bit warmer if they come to Wisconsin.
<adeptula@facstaff.wisc.edu>
- Friday, October 17, 1997 at 13:33:16 (CST)

Another way of looking at the question: where do land-stealing, illegal immigrant waspbacks belong? Let's put the white colonialist invaders on the reservations and take back what was once ours!
<Sister Nivedita>
- Tuesday, October 21, 1997 at 15:49:51 (CST)

These people should be free to move about as they please, just as anyone else should be able to. I am sick of the whole "we took their land so we should take care of them." If they want to make a living, they have the same opportunity as anyone else, more actually. Do you know how many scholarships I can't get because I am white? I believe in helping others, but first they have to help themselves.

- Monday, October 27, 1997 at 21:47:26 (CST)

everywhere. Everyone belongs wherever they want to be. geez, give me something harder there silly.

- Tuesday, October 28, 1997 at 13:13:43 (CST)

Aboriginal peoples belong in Hollywood with all the fucked up stars who are rich. THE MEXICANS should live in Canada where they will be okay. S.Acoose

- Tuesday, October 28, 1997 at 14:19:39 (CST)

You KNOW
<lou>
- Tuesday, October 28, 1997 at 14:23:33 (CST)

everywhere

- Thursday, November 13, 1997 at 15:48:46 (CST)

mexicans belong everywhere

- Wednesday, November 19, 1997 at 20:10:11 (CST)

Aboriginal people belong every where, as in where ever they might happen to be as they move from one place to the next.

- Sunday, November 30, 1997 at 19:12:50 (CST)

straight up, i'm damn proud of my white skin and my mexican heritage. it seems as if i am not accepted by both sides, by my white families i am called spic, wetback, sand nigger and many other racail comments, and from my mexican blood i am called a white boy, blanco diablo, theif of the land, and gringo, so i don't belong in any place but my own, and that is wherever i damn well please. as many say "you can take my life but not my love and pride." this is my pride, im in my own state, my minds state. while some whites think they are the superior race yelling out "god dont like black it was written" you can consider my brown blood black. to the mexicans that say they the superior race, i got something for you to, be brown dont be a bitch!!! it's people like you that make all the drama happen, you dont even know how the real shit is, you aint on both sides, so shut the fuck up and be black, brown, white, whatever, we dont need the racism. what yall need to start doing is start being people, be a real person, if someone talks shit just sit back and holler out "fuck'em." if someone cant accept you for your color, heritage, what you do, gangster, stoned ass burn out, prepy ass kid, jock, whjatever and wherever it goes, they can't accept you then, that's it then, you ain't got to accept them. just be yourself, no matter what you got to keep your head in you hands. to my mexican blood "be real people, the south will never rise, kill the racism, be real people" to my white people "no more racism, be people, loving life, be real"
<J. DOAN>
- Friday, December 12, 1997 at 23:36:32 (CST)

Everywhere
<Shawn E Shawn e-mail shawn_henry@banffcentre.ab.ca>
- Wednesday, January 21, 1998 at 16:29:50 (CST)

Aboriginals, Mexicans, even some lawyers, belong wherever they want to be. Some lawyers, of course, belong in fucking jail.
<wylam@bgnet.bgsu.edu>
- Saturday, February 07, 1998 at 23:23:52 (CST)

everywhere ever wherever they want to be

- Saturday, March 07, 1998 at 17:06:43 (CST)

la gente aborigen pertenece en sus tierras natales, en las ciudades, in the mall, in the 'burbs, in the expensive condos, in short, every place where they choose to live!
<barreto@uwindsor.ca>
- Wednesday, March 25, 1998 at 00:09:52 (CST)

a. Everywhere; especially including 'the Reserve' to make sure the Big Government Guns (and remember, kiddies, this shit doesn't just happen in North America) leave at least SOME land SOMEWHERE on this planet THE FUCK ALONE. b. Everywhere, naturlich.
<ianus@elwha.evergreen.edu>
- Friday, April 03, 1998 at 00:00:19 (CST)

Anywhere they choose to go...

- Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 23:56:50 (CST)

wherever they want wherever they need
<shera@cadvision.com>
- Friday, June 05, 1998 at 13:16:43 (CST)

people belong where they feel they belogn, regardless of who they say they are or how they are labeled by science

- Monday, June 08, 1998 at 14:44:20 (CST)

All over the white landscape- turning the white to dark in a matter of minutes! Micro-vato el cafe-mulatto... El mundo blanco esta despingado...soon all of it will burn to a crisp dark brown.
<Mexico91@prodigy.net>
- Saturday, July 04, 1998 at 23:21:22 (CST)

Aboriginal peoples and Mexicans (and Floridians and Muscovites and Tahitians, et. al.) belong wherever the hell they feel like going.
<Lucas Grzybowski - ltg8986@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>
- Thursday, July 16, 1998 at 13:28:53 (CST)

people pretty much belong wherever they go.
<jwhitman@kahn.finearts.uvic.ca>
- Monday, July 20, 1998 at 15:11:30 (CST)

Mexicans belong in Mexico. America is for Americans. If Mexicans want to come to America, they need to become Americans. There is no room here for Mexican-Americans, African-Americans, or any other 'american sub groups'. Either you are American (our side) or non-American (get the hell out)

- Wednesday, August 05, 1998 at 00:41:28 (CST)

There choice-their land-thier past present and future. They already 'belong'!!
<v.hart@qut.edu.au>
- Saturday, August 15, 1998 at 23:33:33 (CST)

Where they ("Aboriginals" and Mexicans) belong should be for them to decide. But that raises the question of realms of choice; which, despite living in the "land of the free," is limited. Coke or Pepsi?

- Friday, September 11, 1998 at 14:50:54 (CST)

We belong everywhere that we can make a difference, whether it's a good or bad. We belong where people need us. We belong where we feel comfortable. Sometimes, we belong where we feel uncomfortable.
<jimmy>
- Friday, September 11, 1998 at 22:43:48 (CST)

What is belonging? What is longing? Who is the other? Who is the self? Our need for borders, for our skin (as physical border between the self and the other or as part of the definition of difference) is poignant somehow-not to deny the physical and spiritual cruelty that has been engendered by a need to create these concepts- or the need for political action-but what is the wellspring? Maybe we can just blame it all on Descartes and start over. Be where you long to be.
<kjohnso5@satie.arts.usf.edu>
- Saturday, October 31, 1998 at 16:50:25 (CST)

Aboriginal people and Mexicans belong everywhere!!!
<hey_raul@hotmail.com>
- Monday, November 30, 1998 at 18:03:06 (CST)

keep them where they belong actually kill them all.
<anti_fetus@hotmail.com>
- Friday, December 04, 1998 at 09:11:32 (CST)

Mexicans belong in Mexico and Canadians in Canada

- Tuesday, December 08, 1998 at 01:01:06 (CST)

Names of countries were made by the human race. We as humans can un make them as well. If you are Mexican you are Mexican becausee you were born in that particular space, correct. Well, forget about it people. Lets put all these names somewehre and deal with the fact that we are all humans. Soon enough we will begin to realize that we are one race and nothing else should be as important as that. Doesn't amtter what language we speak or what color we are. We all breathe, eat, sleep, and shit! Lets deal with the fact taht we are more alike than different. The only thing that makes us different is our life styles and that is caused by money... A pattern maybe or can it be oppression? Think about it fellow Mexicans, People, Humans, what ever you want to call yourselves.
<WErDmvmnt@msn.com>
- Thursday, December 10, 1998 at 23:50:15 (CST)

Hate Hate Hate. Lack of vision and no will to either attempt to understand or, at the very least to let go and confess that one does not have all the answers. I confess I do not have answers (hushed cries expressing shock)'Good heavens! YOU don't have the answers?!?! YOU don't have some half-assed conclusion to draw, and to present as your well-thought-out, oh so remarkable insight?' All I know is that there is remarkable GREED and FEAR hurtling us forward into the future and that it starts and ends with every single individual human being. So, quit making sweeping generalizations about people. Just accept that YOU DON'T KNOW. If you're simply frustrated by your inability or lack of opportunity to express yourself, what with all of the grief of being human, then say so - make it clear - and then go ballistic. But don't try to pass off shoddy conclusions you've drawn out of exasperation with your own limited experiences, as some blueprint for a new social order. People like to say "But, I'm entitled to MY opinion". But what comes with the right to an opinion - as with all rights - comes the responsibility to educate, to inform oneself. Otherwise, who gives a shit about your fucking ignorant opinion? We've already got too many of those. Hey, isn't that what the good 'ole U.S. of A was built on?

- Friday, December 11, 1998 at 11:09:50 (CST)

I assume that Aborignal peoples of North America and Mexicans of Mexico are as human as anyone else therefore they (we) should be given equal rights which entitle them to their own freedom to decide where they want to live. Often this is not a reality since the government has much of the control, using capital to limit many peoples abilities to be socially mobile.
<Amber LeMouel [alemouel@internorth.com]>
- Wednesday, December 23, 1998 at 14:55:14 (CST)

Aborigina... or... some other fictional place of 'belonging'
<unit@panix.com>
- Sunday, December 27, 1998 at 03:37:37 (CST)