Week #4, Thursday Seminar Paper Adare: pp.pp. xiii-28 & pp.74-77 Jan. 30, 2013

#1 “Unfortunately, employment and academia rank are only two areas where stereotype-based racism applies. For example, when our home was vandalized and we reported the incident to the police, they said we were “primitive savages” and told to “go back where you came from,” as if we were foreigners living on this continent.” (Pg. 3 Introduction)
-This quote has such significance because of all the racist names and comments Adare and her husband were being called too and faced with. I wonder where that police man got his mis[representation] from? And, how can he/she be so hateful? What an ignorant thing to say to someone, especially if they are a Native person. Reading this quote gave me a weird thought to think about as well…The police officer who is calling them names, is a person of authority! It’s just a piece of history that is being recycled and repeating itself. Adare is very much right when she says that things like this regarding racial profiling, still happen.
#2 “ By dehumanizing the indigenous population of North America, by portraying them as barbarians and cannibals, politicians of the time allowed the “godly people” of Europe to justify their invasion of the New-to-them World, as well as the torture, murder, and enslavement of its inhabitants.” (Pg. 19)
-I find this quote significant also because, when I imagine the white Euro-Americans coming to (what is now) the U.S., I see them as scared and out of their mind. I notice that when people get scared, that they always revert to having to be that dominant person, or group. The natives felt the same way, but did not come