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Nightwing · 06-20-2007, 09:20 AM

This kind of reminds me of the healing forest model as part of the "Red Road to Recovery" program for indiginous peoples. The theory is simple enough. You can take a sick tree and heal it and let it live healthy again, but if you don't heal the whole forest the tree will just get sick again. That is why the Red Road involves the whole tribe in peoples recovery.

I see Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, every day beat down on by our society in America. It's hard to blame them for some of the things they do when the society they are living in works so hard aginst them. Our government steps in with social programs but that does not solve the problem of the racial bigitry that is so rampent in American society today. If the general population does not see these people as contributing members of the society then they never will be. Every morning these groups wake up and by the time the day ends they have been so beat down that they don't have the energy to better themselve because they are too busy deflecting the racist blows of the society. As a white American I can get up and go to work and people treat me with respect. It makes it easier to be a "good member of society" when that is how you are greeted. It has nothing to do with what I do but simply an outward appearance of my attitude and skin color. It is easy to be happy when you are not an oppressed group.

If you are a minority in Nebraska you can get your kids taken away for a minor drug violation like having a small amount of weed for personal use. The same amount for a white person is just a warning and go about your day. We have such a problem with racism here it's a wonder we don't have riots all the time.

So it doesn't matter how much the person changes if society is not willing to change with them. So far Society in American has not been willing to do that. It may be the same for the Aboriginals. It's not the government programs that are at fault it is the racist people creating the sickness that prevents these people from getting well.

06-20-2007, 09:20 AM	#44
Nightwing Baaz Draconian Join Date: June 14, 2004 Location: Neb. Age: 60 Posts: 725	This kind of reminds me of the healing forest model as part of the "Red Road to Recovery" program for indiginous peoples. The theory is simple enough. You can take a sick tree and heal it and let it live healthy again, but if you don't heal the whole forest the tree will just get sick again. That is why the Red Road involves the whole tribe in peoples recovery. I see Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, every day beat down on by our society in America. It's hard to blame them for some of the things they do when the society they are living in works so hard aginst them. Our government steps in with social programs but that does not solve the problem of the racial bigitry that is so rampent in American society today. If the general population does not see these people as contributing members of the society then they never will be. Every morning these groups wake up and by the time the day ends they have been so beat down that they don't have the energy to better themselve because they are too busy deflecting the racist blows of the society. As a white American I can get up and go to work and people treat me with respect. It makes it easier to be a "good member of society" when that is how you are greeted. It has nothing to do with what I do but simply an outward appearance of my attitude and skin color. It is easy to be happy when you are not an oppressed group. If you are a minority in Nebraska you can get your kids taken away for a minor drug violation like having a small amount of weed for personal use. The same amount for a white person is just a warning and go about your day. We have such a problem with racism here it's a wonder we don't have riots all the time. So it doesn't matter how much the person changes if society is not willing to change with them. So far Society in American has not been willing to do that. It may be the same for the Aboriginals. It's not the government programs that are at fault it is the racist people creating the sickness that prevents these people from getting well. __________________ HoHo What!