9. Do you think that Indian people are responsible for their own demise? Why?

a). They are born lazy?
b). They are not very bright?
c). Their will has been defeated?
d). Other?

9. Do you think Mexicans are responsible for the increase in crime and drugs? Why?

a). They are inerently violent?
b). They lack education?
c). They just love it?
d). Other


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The population of First Nations peoples has been deliberately and systematically decimated by the colonial power (AmeriKKKa). As for drug use among Mexicans, I think the reality of territorial occupation of the Southwest by Conservative Republican anti-humanists is such an overwhelming nightmare that drugs become the only consolation. Short of revolution, that is.

- Sunday, September 21, 1997 at 15:49:57 (CST)

neither are responsible for their own demise. if we are going to point fingers we must point them at our enemies; "elected" officials, governmaent and politicians, white culture in general and so on.
<daryl>
- Wednesday, October 08, 1997 at 20:04:39 (CST)

d) They don't try to hide anything like white people do, if they were more "incognito" the public wouldn't see their faults and judge. As for the mexicans, The USA are looking for someone to put the blame on.
<Stephy Acoose>
- Tuesday, October 28, 1997 at 14:52:47 (CST)

everyone is responsible for their actions

- Wednesday, November 19, 1997 at 20:23:56 (CST)

everyone is responsible for their actions

- Wednesday, November 19, 1997 at 20:23:57 (CST)

1. d) Indians have been the targets of genocide. Period. 2. d) Personally, I go for the story about the CIA introducing crack to South Central. I blame them for the increase in crime and drugs.

- Saturday, February 07, 1998 at 23:45:25 (CST)

Indian/demise: no. The potential argument that 'well, if their spirit was strong, and they had the conviction of their beliefs, why were they laid so low?' argument was finally countered in my mind by the brutally simple idea of machine guns and their ilk and those who get carried away with the simple fact that they have this technology and forget to notice their vulnerability to corruption as a result. Mexicans/crime&drugs: it's not a question that I have the data to judge with. Sure it might be easier to get Mexican drugs into the Border States, but people who want drugs deserve them, for the most part; as far as I'm concerned, they should be legal and regulated by an honest government. Obviously this isn't happening and they can be the only reasonable source of income and/or stress relief for some people of any ethnic identity. The problem with the quality or destructive tendencies of some side effects of SOME drugs (most of which are far more available in the labs of pharmaceutical megacorporations) is due to greed (let's see, between media and government and everyone they underhandedly browbeat, who is left to believe that money isn't what >should< matter?) and suppression. They sure as hell aren't inherently violent. Lack of education (in the sense of being deprived of options, or even AWARENESS of options, for self-empowerment) is in my opinion a HUGE cause of associations between average non-white-upper-middle-class and the streets. Sometimes it seems like the only way to convince the complacent families of this deranged 'nation' of racial equality is to turn the tables and see what percentage of millions of WHITE 'aliens' on the streets and working for nearly nothing, if anything at all, what percentage of them would 'knuckle down' and 'use the system available to them'... Wait, were we talking about illegal immigrants or legal immigrants or Mexicans who stay in Mexico? no answer.
<ianus@elwha.evergreen.edu>
- Friday, April 03, 1998 at 04:42:42 (CST)

Indian people are not responsible for their own demise. You try fighting the greed of unchecked European capitalism, guns, disease and oppression without conscience and see how well you do. Mexicans are not responsible for the rise in crime and drugs. Drugs and crime are created by oppression and silly laws. If you don't think drug laws lead to drug crime, you had better get your head out of your ass and wake up.
<bfundak@bgnet.bgsu.edu>
- Thursday, April 09, 1998 at 23:08:09 (CST)

D) It was fate NO, you can't point to one group for bad things happeing.
<m l.>
- Monday, June 08, 1998 at 14:56:59 (CST)

Indians are only responsible for their own demise in that they failed to kill the invading Europeans before the Europeans killed them. So I guess that's d) Other. I think humans are responsible for high crime rates. And what's wrong with drugs? If they were legal, there would be a lot less attendant violence, though if they were legal, every child, woman and man in the USA would have a crack pipe stuck in the veins on her/his arm, and a hey-ron needle in his/her mouth.
<Lucas Grzybowski - ltg8986@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>
- Thursday, July 16, 1998 at 14:17:35 (CST)

Mexicans are just a huge influx of uneducated, impoverished, semi-3rd world immigrants. It takes time to become used to civilization. In the mean time, they bring it down.

- Wednesday, August 05, 1998 at 00:49:14 (CST)

This is another one of those crazy loaded questions isn't it? I don't think the Indian people are responsible for their demise because a vast majority of the population was involuntary murdered by European disease. Mexicans are not responsible for the increase in crime and drugs. The marginalization of working class poeple and minority cultures should take the blame for the crime and drug problems.
<jimmy>
- Friday, September 11, 1998 at 23:15:53 (CST)

No, I believe that many missionaries and the government are responsible for the actions of todays First Nations Peoples. This is too long of a topic to write about.
<Amber LeMouel [alemouel@internorth.com]>
- Wednesday, December 23, 1998 at 15:13:01 (CST)

the gov't could stop the drug trade if it wanted, the only problem is then they couldn't make no money offa it if they did....people through all times have wanted to experiment with altered consciousness... but then theres things like crack that can be a new slave master...especially when the CIA looks the other way or brings it in!the thing with crack and herion is that it keeps you a slave to money,too..dependant on the whole capitalist machine that you can never get into gear with cause of your jones... so when youre strung out, you commit crime since its a matter of life and death...so all those cracker politicians can bombard society with this notion of crime and drugs being an inevitable partnership, its very twisted. the whole drug paranoia can be manipulated in many ways, it plays into the whole "us" and "them" scenario, to make it easier to blame problems(real or imagined) on anyone else but yourself.
<meesken@earthlink.net>
- Wednesday, December 23, 1998 at 16:53:22 (CST)