NYT Guest Op-Ed (Faludi): America’s Guardian Myths
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ahh .. the inherent difficulties in taking over land from people who lived there before you .. ain’t imperialism a bitch!
Posted on 08-Sep-07 at 9:53 am | PermalinkMike:
Here is the letter I wrote to the NYT in response to Faludi’s piece:
To The Editor:
By labelling both Indian attacks on settlers and the attacks of 9/11 as “home-soil terrorism,” Susan Faludi engages in the most repugnant type of historical revisionism (Op-Ed, Sept. 7).
Has she forgotten that we were the interlopers? That tens of millions of Native Americans had lived here for hundreds, possibly thousands of years before we (i.e., white Europeans) simply decided to “move in?” That “manifest destiny” caused the near-genocide of an entire indigenous people? That it was the Native Americans who were defending their homeland from us as we drove westward, co-opting the land, and slaughtering them in the process?
I can only imagine what a Native American reading the article might have to say about Ms. Faludi’s perception of history. For me, it brings to mind a t-shirt that I have been seeing alot lately, which features a sepia-type photograph of four Native Americans in traditional dress, holding various weapons. Above the photo, it reads, “Homeland Security.” Below, it reads: “Fighting terrorism since 1492.”
Ian Alterman
Posted on 08-Sep-07 at 1:03 pm | Permalink