[R-G] Saami [Lapp]

[Aaron Aarons]

>Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:04:09 -0700
>From: Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby at resist.ca>
>
>Hunter Gray wrote:
>> The Saami origin lies in Northeastern Asia and, while the people now
>> known as Native Americans moved -- over a long period of time into
>> the Western Hemisphere via the Bering Straits --
>
>There are a lot of people in many nations across Turtle Island who would both challenge this as well as tune you out for saying it.
>
>Personally, I don't see western science as able to prove this sort of thing, and also fully am suspicious that this line is promoted and promulgated in order to undermine indigenous sovereignty, in particular among idiots who then say garbage like "See? Everyone here is an immigrant, no more 'native land claims'"

The argument that "everyone here is an immigrant" can, of course, be applied to every place in the world except for some place in Africa where -- depending on how you define "humans" -- the first humans evolved. I would think that radical anti-capitalists would also be radical egalitarians, and not think that anybody deserves more of the earth or its benefits more than anybody else, regardless of where their ancestors came from and whether their ancestors were better or worse than the other's ancestors at displacing, enslaving and killing people, and manufacturing pieces of paper asserting their right to continue doing so.

 - Aaron