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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
"I can't be racist, I have black friends!" Come on man, you're not even trying.
Hate the people, not the race. I mean, I hate you because you're a bigoted #######, not because you're non-native.
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I don't want to put words in his mouth, but I think what he's trying to say is there are systemic problems within the reserve (created by the band members themselves) that perpetuate the cycle of poverty, sexual and substance abuse, including an inherent distrust of the "white man" (not that this isn't unfounded).
Thompson Highway's "Rez Girls" or Ecstacy of Rita Joe explores these concepts.