WON:
Basically, these are people with:
a. WAY too much time on their hands.
b. WAY too little sense.
c. WAY too many delusions of their self-appointed authority.
I am a sterotypical middle-aged white guy. Balding on top, overweight, not the greatest eyesight, etc. And you know what? I don't give a rat's patoot that people perceive me the way I am because, dammit, that's the way I am.
I'm sure when I eventually see a picture of the author of that book I will NOT think, "What a pair of boobs." I will be thinking in the singular.
The one that offended me themost was about the Indians' living on a reservation. Most middle-class whites have not been to a reservation other than to gamble at a casino. Many of the people inhabiting some of these reservations, Navajo, Hopi, Rosebud all coming quickly to my SW mind, live in conditions worse than your dog's. What does this idiot author want us to do, close our eyes and forget they exist? I make substantial donations to the Rosebud Reservation because I want to in some small way share what I have been fortunate enough to earn over the years. And I only found out about these places when a friend of mine showed me pictures of Rosebud some years back. Tin-roofed shacks with no windows, no insulation, no running water, nothing but a one-holer out back. Wind, dust, snakes, tumbleweeds for neighbors. And if we don;t share these images nothing will ever change.
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TEd
