"This essay may seem like the ranting of an angry Indian. It is. I'm not going to lie to you. Racism happens everyday at the school (Walker-Hackensack-Akeley), by both sides. I'm a mixed breed, so I get double the amount of racism, anybody of "pure" blood gets. Pure blood is a laughable idea. We are all mutts, it is just a matter of degree. That is to say, we are all one race. Yet, that won't help unless people realize it.

Today, I can say my ancestors stole land from my ancestors, or my ancestors scalped my ancestors. This is because of the heinous events that have happened over the centuries. One should never be able to say that. One should be able to say my ancestors; sure they had a couple of tiffs, but that's the past, and we're all co-existing happily. Yet I fear that would be anathema to history of man and Christianity."

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Jeremie Pemberton: The whitest Indian speaks (The Walker Pilot-Independent 5/19)