‘Letter to the Editor’ Archives
Phillips, Mpls, America Awake!!!
by Jim Graham, Ventura Village Discrimination against Native Americans really is an issue for Phillips, as well as a Minneapolis as a whole. Minneapolis, and in particular the Phillips Community of Minneapolis is home to the largest coherent Urban Indian Community in the Nation. It is the birth place of AIM and the Indian Civil Rights Movement. The City of Minneapolis even has been forced to formally acknowledge the historical institutional discrimination of Minneapolis against Native people in a formal document. And in a formal MOU with the Indian community promised to stop doing so and redress the past institutional discrimination. That institutional and individual bias in Minneapolis unfortunately continues. It continues even in what is supposed to be E-Democracy. This is particularly true with the Minneapolis Issues List where the discrimination continues. The “powers” at the Minneapolis Issues List of E-Democracy have continued this institutional bias by [...]
e-mail to community Sister Rose: saint among us
Something certainly SHOULD be named for Sister Rose. Perhaps the only “Saint” I will ever meet. What an uncannily moving little lady. When she asked you to be a better person, it was almost impossible to not be. I well remember when, after giving Rose a ride home, she reached over and grasping my arm said,” I am so happy that my prayers have been answered and God has made you a better person who will help me with Peace House.” I replied that I was not aware I was a bad person but that I promised to help her save Peace House. I am not sure it took the prayers of a Saint to make me a better person, but I did try to help save Peace House; not the building but the idea. That old building was NOT Peace House. Just as that frail little body was NOT Sister Rose.     Peace House will continue in a better building that better serves the people to whom Sister Rose devoted her life. That frail little woman of steel and that old building [...]
“We Owe It All To Guns!”
By Frank Erickson The United States is by far the number one exporter of weapons in the world. The profit the U.S. makes is in the billions. The United States make a lot of money selling weapons abroad, but this in turn makes the world a very dangerous place. When U.S. snipers were killing Iraqis, we heard no talk of gun control. After a U.S. soldier killed 16 women and children in Afghanistan, there was no talk of gun control. When Henry Sibley took a group of soldiers deep into Dakota Territory after the “U.S.-Dakota War”, and shot and killed over 150 women and children, there was no talk of gun control. 150 years ago, Native Americans would have been strong advocates of gun control around here. I believe in gun control. I just think the timing is suspect. The United States was created based on the lack of gun control. There is a reason why there are 200 million whites in America, and only 5 million Native Americans”¦GUNS! My white ancestors were very good [...]
