Literally. The writer said Sero was wrong. Actually, he said "
A MOHAWK MAKES A MISTAKE."
I am not kidding! It's at the bottom of this post.
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
From the -- I'm not sure what to call this person. A debator? An objector? -- Anyway, this is what was said in response to Brant Sero objecting to his people being erroneously depicted in mass media that's read by the thousands across the country:
"Objection is
especially mysterious because the dime novel Indian, who is, after all, only
the Fennimore Cooper Indian, is when fairly viewed, an admirable as well as a picturesque
savage. His so-called treachery and bloodthirstiness were not moral
obliquities, but merely the characteristic marks of a developmental stage through which every race that amounts to
anything has passed, and he had a courage, dignity, and innate self-respect
that made him prefer death to bondage. Not a few white races, besides many
black ones, have submitted cheerfully enough to slavery, but the North American
Indian never did in any considerable numbers, and to the credit of the few that
yielded it can be said that as slaves they were short-lived, inefficient, and
unprofitable...."
Source: 1910, July 2 The New York Times
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I am not kidding! It's at the bottom of this post.
