Comments on: A thing explained…?

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:08:06 +0000

Yes I am still one of the hosts on Through The Eyes of Women on KHSU. Questions! I get to ask questions! And you were my first guest ever for which I will be forever thankful.
I often think of Lucy and the way she has come into your life.

By: lynette77

lynette77 — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:33:07 +0000

Hey Kathy !!!
So glad you found me. Did you read my “why I stopped whining” post? This is it, I’m getting the info out there and folks will… think what they want, do what they want. At least its available. Are you still hosting the radio show? At least until KHUM goes away?

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:36:18 +0000

Untouched? Untold? The story of Lucy has always touche me deeply because it is untold. It is my belief we are never untouched by the suffering of another. Could it be true that the worst thing we hand down to our children it what we have not seen, that which we are taught not to see.
The story of Lucy echos with the unheard voices of those who suffer today and the wrongs that are committed right in front of our unseeing eyes. Wages too small to live on, broken people with no place to turn, folks who chase the dollars from our forests and leave a scared empty land.
The story of Lucy is about learning to see today.
Write On, Lynette

By: lynette77

lynette77 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:01:09 +0000

When I hear that Iraqi civilians have died during our “war” I feel sad, but deep down I have to admit it doesn’t touch me, not really. Not the way the death of another should. It is too far removed. For better or worse, and worse, I think, it is too abstract. I don’t truly understand that people are dying. And that, even worse, many are fearful and suffering, and then dying.
That distance is a luxury for me, as I think it was for Americans in the 1800s. You can understand something intellectually (oh Iraqis died today, oh, it is the fate of the Indians to disappear…) without really getting it. Or, if I’m understanding ‘River’s quote correctly, you can rationalize it as God’s will.

In the movie Blood Diamond, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character at one point asks, quoted (ish), “I wonder sometimes if God ever forgive us for what we’ve done to eachother…” Of course he goes on to say God has already deserted Africa, but that is a topic for another day.

I do wonder, sometimes, if Jesus would forgiven us for what’s been done in the name of Christianity.

By: olmanriver

olmanriver — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:36:28 +0000

One of the greatest rationalizations for the genocide that I have found in print is from this 1880 Mendocino History: "But the Indian is vanishing from the face of the earth surely and not so very slowly. It was estimated in 1877, that there were less than ten thousand left in the entire state of California, distributed as follows: On the reservation at Hoopa valley, five hundred and eighty; Round Valley reservation, nine hundred and fifty-two; Tule River reservation, twelve hundred; and not on any reservation, six thousand five hundred. Making a total of nine thousand two hundred and thirty-two. And yet, it is in the memory of every old pioneer when there were at least that many living on the territory covered now by any one county in the State. It is very strange, and yet it seems a matter of destiny, and just as much so as it was that the nations of the land of Canaan should disappear before the advance of the chosen people of God into their country. Many people are inclined to put on a sentimental air and charge that the white man has been the cause of all this decimation among their ranks. Such, however, does not seem to be the case. The truth is, that they had served their purpose in the great economy of God, and the fullness of time for their disappearance from the earth has come, and they are going to go . Of course, looking at it from this standpoint does not give the white man leave or license to help rid the country of them. Far from it; but on the other hand, the great law of Christian (by which word is meant Christ-like) charity comes in, and demands that they should receive just and honorable usage at the hands of those who come into contact with them."