Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Frankenstein never took responsibility

Just to share a thought one of the things I liked or noticed in the Frankenstein story by Mary Shelley is one of the tragedies was Frankenstein never took responsibility for the life of the Creature that he brought into this world. The Creature knows that by the end of the story and the Creature resents that. The Creature knows that it was brought into this world unprotected, misunderstood, and through no fault of it's own hated by the entire world. This is why I get really annoyed when I hear Blackfeet against Enrollment say things like because of what a person looks like they are disqualified from being a Full Member of the tribe. Or that their family should have married only Blackfeet. These are really arrogant statements. It is not the fault of a individual what family they were born into so stop punishing them for it. Being a Descendant of the Blackfeet Tribe and allegiance to that tribe is in my opinion what makes a person Blackfeet. Anything else is just Racial Bigotry and Narcissism. I think our tribe needs to think more about what it is like to be a Blackfeet Descendant? What does that feel like? And then as Blackfeet knowing firsthand what it feels like to be discriminated against why are we inflicting that kind of pain and humiliation on the Blackfeet Descendants when we already know they are our own people? Blackfeet Descendants are everywhere on the Blackfeet Reservation every day. They are seen everyday without anyone even knowing it because they don't wear anything that identifies them. They are everyone's friends, neighbors, and relatives. Just voicing an opinion. Take it or leave it.

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