Outside Insight

Mankind is confused when women who believe and want equality are accused of being men-haters and when blacks, indigenous or latinos who believe and want equality are accused of being anti-white or racists! Sounds to me like ridiculous attempts, on the part of the system’s non-minorities - to maintain control of power.

Weren’t ‘we’ angry enough to go to war with several countries (some appearing totally random) to “defend ourselves”, “get rid of evil”, and also torture the idiots who dared to disagree - I mean “hurt” us. Didn’t the US feel entitled to defend itself? This is after all one of our most natural animal instincts. Well, why shouldn’t everyone else have the same right?

Bolivia’s race wars - whites and mestizos against indigenous - is only a representation of what goes on the larger Latin America. White-supremacy has been the master there. For most white US citizens this will be a strange concept - “White Supremacy in the land of Latinos??! Sounds weird!”

Let’s not forget my South America was also colonized by Europeans who taught us - just like in other parts of the world - that being white was the best thing to be. As a white person one can be respected, admired, loved and be successful practically without much effort. On the other hand the average ‘Indian’ has been advertised as dirty, drunk, ugly, lazy, ignorant… the list goes on… and this has created a life without education, health or financial opportunities for them. As long as they keep quiet and go on about their misery out of site, society shall live in peace, but our societies are not tolerant of fed-up self-loving Indians speaking up for themselves - “How dare they complain?!”.
We think that the killings and taking of land happened centuries ago - it’s history some say. Look again - Bolivia is by no means an isolated case. It’s happening in every corner of the US and around the world today. White-supremacy and colonization are not part of history… and not surprisingly it is invisible to those who don’t experience it.

It’s in this view that the mestizo learns to choose his European heritage over his indigenous heritage as a measure of survival in a white-supremacist ruling society… and decades and centuries have gone on until the beginning of this white supremacy doctrine is no longer remembered - they are just part of the mainstream culture and it’s not questioned.

It only takes a little observation and thinking to see that we don’t do what is fair and our country has backed political action against those who try to put these communities in the path of fairness. Haven’t you noticed good men and women, powerful & positive leaders, die young - before they can see positive change? The ruling system thinks that the attempts to improve the lives of “the other” are efforts against the system. What stupidity.

Although the oppressor would fear equality, a smart person knows that a community is as strong as its weakest member. The problem today, as it was 500 years ago, is that we don’t want to recognize “the other” as a member of our communities. The brown faces, in the US for example, then become the ‘outsiders’ even when they were the original inhabitants of the land.