Viewer's Email to Miss Horn - Sept. 18, 2007
Oh my goodness! You have definitely gone way over the line of acceptable commentary.
How dare you marginalise the handicapped and poor. One would think that with the history of abuse indigenous peoples have suffered, you'd be the last one to make such an attack. In case you are too much of an 'ignoramus' to see your bigotry, let me point it out for you. Clubfoot? Squeegie washers from a mission? Street people? How dare you!
As for your continued attacks concerning thesis students and the university officials refusing to acknowledge the papers, I can only say that I am still waiting for you to provide me with the details so I can expose this injustice to a wider audience. Why have you refused to respond to my request? It leads one ask if your attacks are baseless. Don't you understand that one must provide evidence in order to support their accusations? At the very least, if evidence was provided it would allow people to refuse to attend these 'racist' institutions. At the most, it would inform people "how well-founded" your "rights really are."
In Spain there is still a great deal of antagonism toward those who speak Catalan. In the eyes of many they are hardly equal.
Once again you address the pollution created by colonial polluters. Once again I ask you to address the pollution created by burning tires at native protests.
Your bigoted opinions and commentary enhance the resistance to honouring the rights of indigenous peoples and the obligations to change the way things work. Please consider the viciousness of your attacks and the hatred in your heart. There is no honour in the path you take.
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Horns Reply:
Thank you for pointing out this problem to me. When I said "clubfoot" I meant "the big boys club". I didn't mean people with deformities. The problem with squeegie washers, you are right to point out an insensitivity. Many are children who have not been properly looked after, apprehended from abusive parents and abandoned by the social services system. As for the names of my informants, we can't give the names of the people in the article. It would ruin whatever chances they might have left to get credit for their work. I have a right to protect my sources. The reality is that the world is not fair. These people are already victimized. If their names were put out publicly, it would ruin whatever may be left of their academic chances. I will leave it up to these people to make their concerns public when the time is right. As for the Catalans, they still have Catalan place names, encyclopedias, dictionaries and so on. As for the burning tires, it was a decision between being killed or to save peoples lives. It's not the same as the planned and concerted attacks that have damaged nature forever by mining, hydro, clear cutting projects by multinationals. There are a great number of reserves that don't have drinkable water. This was not the problem before colonization. There is no hatred in my heart or mind. We're trying to survive. Sometimes we get weary because the genocide is ongoing and vicious. As you can see, because of the attacks that have been made on the students that have dared to look at our situation using solid academic methodology, we sometimes have a hard time not to be sarcastic.
Kahentinetha