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Ethnic Fraud and Red Face Posers
Ethnic Fraud amd "Red Face" Impersonators
April 6, 2014
By Woawachin Suta Win
The escalating debacle regarding whether or not the Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s Attorney General is an American Indian takes me back to my days as an undergraduate at a top university in the United states almost two decades ago.
There were roughly 200 students who “checked the box” as Americans Indians/Alaska Natives but who did not respond to outreach efforts by the student peer counseling program, never came by the American Indian Studies Center, and who otherwise blended into the mainstream of the public university we attended with a population upwards of 25,000 students.......
....... It seems to me that non-Indians often appropriate Native identity in the United States not only to take advantage of perceived benefits in higher education and employment as a racial minority, but also to oppress Natives by infiltrating our communities at the highest levels. Or, just as ominously, by placing themselves in positions of authority as Native Americans within the mainstream a la Ward Churchill. While in his case, Mr Churchill (whose writings were fascinating and inspiring to me regardless of his status as a white man) was more radical than most Native radicals, in the local situation we appear to have the more common phenomenon of the fake Indian or wannabe being an apologist for the traditionally white institutions that figure prominently in the social problems we face and overcome every single day as individuals and as a people.
April 6, 2014
By Woawachin Suta Win
The escalating debacle regarding whether or not the Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s Attorney General is an American Indian takes me back to my days as an undergraduate at a top university in the United states almost two decades ago.
There were roughly 200 students who “checked the box” as Americans Indians/Alaska Natives but who did not respond to outreach efforts by the student peer counseling program, never came by the American Indian Studies Center, and who otherwise blended into the mainstream of the public university we attended with a population upwards of 25,000 students.......
....... It seems to me that non-Indians often appropriate Native identity in the United States not only to take advantage of perceived benefits in higher education and employment as a racial minority, but also to oppress Natives by infiltrating our communities at the highest levels. Or, just as ominously, by placing themselves in positions of authority as Native Americans within the mainstream a la Ward Churchill. While in his case, Mr Churchill (whose writings were fascinating and inspiring to me regardless of his status as a white man) was more radical than most Native radicals, in the local situation we appear to have the more common phenomenon of the fake Indian or wannabe being an apologist for the traditionally white institutions that figure prominently in the social problems we face and overcome every single day as individuals and as a people.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
EUobserver / Private security firms bid on Greek asylum centres
EUobserver / Private security firms bid on Greek asylum centres
Private security firms are bidding to guard EU-funded migrant detention centres in Greece amid a report by Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF), which says poor conditions in some of the facilities are causing disease.
Michael Flynn, who runs the Global Detention Project at the Swiss-based Graduate Institute of International Studies, says outsourcing detention facilities to private security companies is a growing phenomenon.
“There should always be a concern when a state invites a for-profit contractor into the management structure of something like immigration-related detention,” he said.
Introducing private contractors shifts the policy focus away from the well-being of migrants to the bottom line of a company, he said.
Private security firms are bidding to guard EU-funded migrant detention centres in Greece amid a report by Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF), which says poor conditions in some of the facilities are causing disease.
Michael Flynn, who runs the Global Detention Project at the Swiss-based Graduate Institute of International Studies, says outsourcing detention facilities to private security companies is a growing phenomenon.
“There should always be a concern when a state invites a for-profit contractor into the management structure of something like immigration-related detention,” he said.
Introducing private contractors shifts the policy focus away from the well-being of migrants to the bottom line of a company, he said.
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