Wednesday, August 29, 2012

An Indian’s Looking Glass for the White Man


I really like the way the speaker is frankly calling out white men on the way they act with everything. They treat their women as property and silence them when they want to speak; they don’t care about other cultures as people and could uncaringly kill other people without a second thought about it. I like that the speaker sticks up for the women even though they are white women because they are both oppressed in similar ways. But I think my favorite part is the way the speaker uses Christianity to prove a point against white men. The Bible says that we should love everyone equally as brothers and sisters (seemingly without regards to ethnicity, gender, or sexuality). Basically the speaker is saying “well if you’re such a great Christian then why don’t you see me as equal to you?” and I think this is a great question for them to pose. So for discussion, do you think the Indians sympathized with white women and were sort of on the same side as them because they were both being silenced or do you think they still held some grudge against the white women because they were still of the white race?

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