Geronimo!!!!

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I'm curious. I grew up, like probably every kid in the Western world in the 1950s, with cowboy and Indian movies, where the Indian was almost always (a) bad, and (b) the loser, various versions of Custer's Last Stand aside. Reading history later, I came to see the parallels between the treatment handed out to the Indians and that handed out to our own Aboriginals, which is not surpising, since we used the US experience as a model - attempted genocide balanced by paternalistic Xtianity. I am part aboriginal, although it's only a small bit. My son, in the South African assessment of "colour", would be considered white where I would be considered coloured, so I can get away with telling "boong" jokes (work that out from the context). I wonder whether there is a similar "black" (lol) sense of humour among indigenous Americans, and I also wonder if the situation that prompted this joke exists there, that is, a much higher proportion of deaths in custody among Indians than among whites. Two black fellas run into each other in a pub, and one says to the other, "Hey, did ya hear Jackie Martin's dead?" His mate thought about this for a second and said, "Cripes. I didn't even know he'd been arrested." Lash