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This line really caught my attention: "He (Wilma's father) must have honestly believed that in a distant city he could provide a better life for his children, with all the modern amenities" (p. 212). Interesting, considering Wilma and her family were very poor and I'm assuming isolated from modern civilization at Mankiller Flats. So how did Wilma's father know about modern civilization and the chances it offered? From talking to the BIA? From going to Boarding School? From working? Or perhaps it really was their poverty that convinced him they needed to move and try for a new life (despite the risks and separation from home). -- CBrau | This line really caught my attention: "He (Wilma's father) must have honestly believed that in a distant city he could provide a better life for his children, with all the modern amenities" (p. 212). Interesting, considering Wilma and her family were very poor and I'm assuming isolated from modern civilization at Mankiller Flats. So how did Wilma's father know about modern civilization and the chances it offered? From talking to the BIA? From going to Boarding School? From working? Or perhaps it really was their poverty that convinced him they needed to move and try for a new life (despite the risks and separation from home). -- CBrau | ||
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| + | I found it interesting how she almost plays off the decision to move to California as her parents decisions that they made without the force of governmental pressure. Yes there were no weapons forcing them to move or marching them down a path they did not want to take, but the propaganda for leaving (the promise of a better life, the false advertisements of wealth and opportunity) would have been enough to get any group of people to leave their homelands, especially if they had been used to poverty for an extended period of time. The American government does not have the best track record when it comes to handling relations with other ethnicities and races in terms of making equal opportunities available. Ghettos turned ethnic enclaves seem to be a recurring theme in American minority history, and each minority group has had an impact on the development of the America that exists today, therefore each group does deserve to have recognition, not just the African Americans and women, but the Japanese Americans who were placed in internment camps, the chicano Americans who were limited in their migration but who were instrumental in making the US a transcontinental commerce, and finally the Native Americans, who suffered every time white Americans wanted to move and take their land. No group should be excluded in American history and none should be excluded in how they are remembered and honored today. --jmarshal | ||
==A Letter to the Editor of ''The Ladder'' from an African American Lesbian, 1957== | ==A Letter to the Editor of ''The Ladder'' from an African American Lesbian, 1957== | ||
